About this Event
This interactive session will demonstrate how the AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project is turning Thornton’s seventeenth-century manuscripts into an open-access Digital Scholarly Edition (DSE) that both preserves her texts and changes our understanding of their cultural significance. Attendees will be introduced to her four autobiographical manuscripts and be offered unique access to sections of the DSE that are not yet available to the public. In addition, audio samples of Debbie Canon reading her one-woman play, The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton, and other clips relating to our research findings will be available. There will also be an opportunity to ink your own short autobiographical story, inspired by an Alice Thornton prompt.
Coffee, tea and biscuits will be available and following the event, lunch will be available on the ground floor from 13:30-14:30.
This event is generously supported by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences research themes initiative, Edinburgh Global, the Edinburgh Research Organisation, and Una Europa.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St Cecilia’s Hall: Concert Room & Music Museum, The University of Edinburgh, 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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