Cordelia Beattie
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Firth of Forth today. #TimelineCleanse
October 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Firth of Forth today. #TimelineCleanse
By coincidence, this is where I am!
August 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
By coincidence, this is where I am!
We're having to give up on our planned trip to Melrose to see @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social at the Borders Book Festival. The rain here is torrential and sadly the trains will not restart in time. Fingers crossed we will get tickets for the Edinburgh event instead as I have a super fan in the house! 📚
June 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
We're having to give up on our planned trip to Melrose to see @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social at the Borders Book Festival. The rain here is torrential and sadly the trains will not restart in time. Fingers crossed we will get tickets for the Edinburgh event instead as I have a super fan in the house! 📚
No break from @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social - today’s Landmark Trust email about properties to rent had lots of info on (rabbit) warren houses which increased in popularity in the 17thC. Thornton writes about building a ‘warrant house’ which we had decided was probably a warren house.
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
January 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
No break from @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social - today’s Landmark Trust email about properties to rent had lots of info on (rabbit) warren houses which increased in popularity in the 17thC. Thornton writes about building a ‘warrant house’ which we had decided was probably a warren house.
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
That looks great. This is mine (a tradition now):
December 27, 2024 at 11:38 AM
That looks great. This is mine (a tradition now):
My contributor copy has arrived! Lots of beautiful images of exhibition items. Do go along to the British Library's amazing exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, if you can - on until 2 March 2025.
www.seetickets.com/timeslot/med...
#MedievalSky 📜 🗃️
www.seetickets.com/timeslot/med...
#MedievalSky 📜 🗃️
November 23, 2024 at 2:24 PM
My contributor copy has arrived! Lots of beautiful images of exhibition items. Do go along to the British Library's amazing exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, if you can - on until 2 March 2025.
www.seetickets.com/timeslot/med...
#MedievalSky 📜 🗃️
www.seetickets.com/timeslot/med...
#MedievalSky 📜 🗃️
Day out at the theatre but no escaping 17th-century wills. The OG Anne Hathaway as Shakespeare’s ‘second best bed’ overshadowed Juliet for me.
#EarlyModern #Theatre
#EarlyModern #Theatre
November 16, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Day out at the theatre but no escaping 17th-century wills. The OG Anne Hathaway as Shakespeare’s ‘second best bed’ overshadowed Juliet for me.
#EarlyModern #Theatre
#EarlyModern #Theatre
#Palaeography help needed. What is the last word? The author sometimes leaves out consonants! The sentence is: 'That I could leave matters with all my 3 poore Children which tormented me most of All. Assuing my selfe That this
Provission for a 2nd wife was don to XXX'. posvd?
#LegalHistory 📜 🗃️
Provission for a 2nd wife was don to XXX'. posvd?
#LegalHistory 📜 🗃️
November 9, 2024 at 3:21 PM
#Palaeography help needed. What is the last word? The author sometimes leaves out consonants! The sentence is: 'That I could leave matters with all my 3 poore Children which tormented me most of All. Assuing my selfe That this
Provission for a 2nd wife was don to XXX'. posvd?
#LegalHistory 📜 🗃️
Provission for a 2nd wife was don to XXX'. posvd?
#LegalHistory 📜 🗃️
The journey Thornton made (there and back). It is likely some of this was by carriage as she specifically mentions having to go on foot over Whitestone Cliff.
#EarlyModern #Yorkshire 🗃️
#EarlyModern #Yorkshire 🗃️
August 6, 2024 at 1:27 PM
The journey Thornton made (there and back). It is likely some of this was by carriage as she specifically mentions having to go on foot over Whitestone Cliff.
#EarlyModern #Yorkshire 🗃️
#EarlyModern #Yorkshire 🗃️
Alice Thornton was also not a fan of the Scots: discussion of a Presbyterian who was briefly her local minister is labelled in the margin of her third book of her life 'A scottch Cheate'. @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
December 30, 2023 at 2:28 PM
Alice Thornton was also not a fan of the Scots: discussion of a Presbyterian who was briefly her local minister is labelled in the margin of her third book of her life 'A scottch Cheate'. @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
I think William sneaks it (his on the right).
December 1, 2023 at 3:40 PM
I think William sneaks it (his on the right).
Of course it was note 19 that I was interested in! 🗃️ #History #MedievalSky
October 25, 2023 at 5:59 PM
Of course it was note 19 that I was interested in! 🗃️ #History #MedievalSky
'I began to place the books in the new library, but expecting more to come in, we could not be very exact and nor did we make a catalogue' (Thomas Comber, 1696).
Today we are in this library at Durham Cathedral looking at #17thC treasures! #EarlyModern #BookHistory #Manuscripts 📚 🗃️ 📜
Today we are in this library at Durham Cathedral looking at #17thC treasures! #EarlyModern #BookHistory #Manuscripts 📚 🗃️ 📜
October 19, 2023 at 9:12 AM
'I began to place the books in the new library, but expecting more to come in, we could not be very exact and nor did we make a catalogue' (Thomas Comber, 1696).
Today we are in this library at Durham Cathedral looking at #17thC treasures! #EarlyModern #BookHistory #Manuscripts 📚 🗃️ 📜
Today we are in this library at Durham Cathedral looking at #17thC treasures! #EarlyModern #BookHistory #Manuscripts 📚 🗃️ 📜