Cordelia Beattie

#MedievalSky #EarlyModern

If you're working on any aspect of the life-cycle (eg birth, marriage, baptism, leaving home, death, childbearing, etc) and want to present at the Life Cycles Seminar at IHR I'd be keen to hear from you! Echo chambers are never good, so it's always worth casting the net.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

This week we published a new volume in the Society's Camden series of primary sources: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS.

This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is free to read until 30 September #Skystorians

ICYMI #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜

Wonderfully thoughtful blog post about “Cartooning the Medieval” from Anne Le, a postdoctoral fellow who joined us at the Newberry in June for the event! sites.nd.edu/manuscript-s...

Check out the second blog from the brilliant @witchmapproject.bsky.social student interns. Really interesting to see some of the conclusions of their research! #hextag #earlymodern #medievalsky #folklorefriday

Photo of an old pub called the Wheatsheaf. Painted white with wooden tables outside.

By coincidence, this is where I am!

AHRC project sheds light on the life of 17th century memoirist Research into a manuscript discovered at Durham Cathedral has provided fresh insights on the life of writer and memoirist Alice Thornton thanks to AHRC funding.

ICYMI: AHRC project sheds light on the life of 17th century memoirist #AHRC #AcademicSky

AHRC project sheds light on the life of 17th century memoirist Research into a manuscript discovered at Durham Cathedral has provided fresh insights on the life of writer and memoirist Alice Thornton thanks to AHRC funding.

Read about some of our findings on Thornton and her four manuscripts in this @ukri.org post on our #AHRC funded project:
www.ukri.org/news/ahrc-pr...

That would make it an even better origin story!

Finding Two Missing Thornton Manuscripts Blog article - 23 June 2022

This is a fantastic post about a fantastic research project by @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social — it could be an episode in AS Byatt’s Possession! It also highlights the importance of serendipity in research and also how online research will only get us so far. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

Our origin story for those who want more on the manuscript in the pub 📜 🍺 #EarlyModern

Great to see our project getting this coverage.

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🥳 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student Jess Nutt won Best Speaker for her paper 'Sagas and Swords: Early #Medieval #Wales and Evidence of #Viking Conflict' @ Society for Medieval Archaeology Student Colloquium @exeter.ac.uk last week! 🏆 📷 C. Mason #EdinArch #archaeology @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social

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📖 After six years of work, my @royalhistsoc.org Camden edition of 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' is now available online!
bit.ly/4opx9V4

@universitypress.cambridge.org have kindly made the entire edition freely accessible for the next few months!

The Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: new Camden volume published - RHS The Society is very pleased to announced publication of its latest Camden series volume: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler. This vol...

New: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS

The Society's latest Camden volume of primary sources presents the 115 holograph letters of Margaret Tudor. This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is an unprecedented epistolary archive 1/2 #Skystorians

Got to love an origin story!

For a great blog read on the genesis of this project, including a text from her Dad and a bus stop encounter with LLC’s Professor Suzanne Trill (Co-Investigator), do check out Cordelia’s very first post on the Alice Thornton’s Books website: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

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And team! Suzanne Trill, @sharonhoward.bsky.social and @hagenilda.bsky.social.

In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance.

In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

'Two of four autobiographical volumes were discovered by Cordelia Beattie, a history professor at the University of Edinburgh. One was handed by a descendant of Thornton to Beattie’s father in a pub in Ludlow, Shropshire, and the second was unearthed in the library of Durham Cathedral.'

Thanks Margot!

Team work!

Finding Two Missing Thornton Manuscripts Blog article - 23 June 2022

Ha! Yes, here's one I made earlier: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
(He did have to hand it back!)

Excellent. I often describe it as like Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘I am, I am, I am’, as lots of deliverances from death. My 1st experience of that was you in convo with Maggie at the Ed book festival!

Thanks Greg - SRJ gave me some great advice at the start. Lovely to see the photos of you two at graduation the other week!

@hagenilda.bsky.social look at the Pepys v Thornton battle on the right!

Thanks Catherine - and for your expertise on our board. Much appreciated!