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Before the news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, those of us who had gathered for our Alice Thornton’s Books end of project year board meeting (8 September 2022) were paying our respects to the remarkab...

The last time a King Charles was proclaimed in London was in 1660.[1] When Charles III acceded to the throne last week, there was some initial speculation about whether he might choose to use one of h...

Encoding highly complex texts like Alice Thornton's books is a process of interpretation in order to make explicit some of the underlying structures and patterns in a text. How does text encoding in T...

What is Alice Thornton’s connection to Middleham Castle? While Alice grew up in relative privilege, living in nice halls such as Kirklington and Hipswell with her family, she certainly didn’t live any...

‘Are you interested in the manuscript of Alice Thornton's diary?’ This was the text that I got from my dad one evening in autumn 2018. I didn’t get too excited initially as I thought my dad might be r...