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CordeliaBeattie , to bookhistodons
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I've just collaborated on a blog post with NYCRO archivist Gail Falkingham as part of our Alice Thornton's Books project. It, includes high quality images of the Thornton-related documents we had on display at our event at the archive yesterday. https://nycroblog.com/2024/07/04/alice-thornton/
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bibliolater , to linguistics
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Yorkshire apostrophe fans demand road signs with nowt taken out

"Council says punctuation mark must go to suit computer databases, but grammar purists see signs of falling standards"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/05/north-yorkshires-dropped-apostrophe-for-street-signs-upsets-residents

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CordeliaBeattie , to histodon
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Charles II had his coronation
23 April 1661 at Westminster Abbey. How was this event remembered by Alice Thornton, a gentlewoman living in north . See our blog post. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2023-04-23-coronation-charles-II/
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CordeliaBeattie , to histodon
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Our 4th Alice Thornton's Books project blog post is now up. Patricia Phillippy offers an insight into Thornton's connections with women who were North American sojourners and on how was influencing societal thought (and Thornton's thinking) in 17thC . https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2024-03-21-thornton-and-north-america/ @histodons @histodon @litodons @earlymodern

18+ Neferure , to bookstodon
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Following on from a Philip Larkin conversation last night, I have aquired an anecdote: my FIL also studied at Hull University in the 1960s, so met Larkin while he was librarian there. He said he was, "fucking weird".

I still need to ask my dad for similar profound insights.

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CordeliaBeattie , to litstudies
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Check out version v1.3.0 of our edition of Alice Thornton's Books. We have a new search function for people and places. Links that go to our partial release are live (others show up but are currently disabled). We also have some sample bios up for the 14 people named in the first 22 pages of her 'Book of Remembrances'. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/entities/

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AimeeMaroux , to mythology
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It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / ! 🗡️

Meet this Roman stone statue of the god , found in . It was carved from local sandstone in the 4th century CE. was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia that became the city of York. Eboracum was a busy port and a provincial capital with residents from all over the Roman Empire.

🏛️ Mars, Museum

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CordeliaBeattie , to histodon
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Anyone celebrating today? Writer Alice Thornton spent most of her life in North Yorkshire and we have mapped some of the places in an interactive map. Find out more in my new blog post https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2023-08-01-YorkshireDay

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