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Written by Cordelia Beattie on 2025-01-30 at 11:59

30 Jan. 1648 #otd King Charles I was beheaded in London. A contemporary, Alice Thornton, wrote: 'cruelly murdered by the hands of blasphemous rebels… Let his admirable book speak his Eternal Glory and praise, the best of kings … that ever this Earth had' (Bk 1). For more on this book, Eikon Basilike, see Suzanne Trill's new blog post: https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2025-01-29-Eikon-Basilike-Blog/

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Written by Cordelia Beattie on 2024-10-26 at 14:32

As we near the end of our funded project, Alice Thornton's Books, there is a lot happening behind the scenes of our website. With that in mind, what are the best examples of historical timelines that you have seen on other websites? #dataviz #digitalhumanities #history @histodons @histodon

https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/entities/

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Written by Cordelia Beattie on 2024-09-09 at 18:18

In the latest blog post for the Alice Thornton's Books project, @bea shows how the marked up text underlying our digital edition can be used as a dataset. Have a look at the initial results of her computational text analysis. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2024-09-09-bloodletting-to-emojis/

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Written by Cordelia Beattie on 2024-08-22 at 13:28

And for a discussion of what the project means by an 'event' and how this was handled for our #digital edition, see this post by

@sharonhoward https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2022-11-28-tei-events-thornton-books/

[#]TEI #XML #digitalhumanities @earlymodern @histodons @histodon @bookhistodons

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Written by Cordelia Beattie on 2024-08-22 at 13:25

News from the Alice Thornton's Books project: you can now search our #DigitalEdition for 'events', which we have grouped into categories such as illness, accident/danger, legal/financial, war/politics. You can also see which appear in particular/all books. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/entities/

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