Prof Tim Thornton

For those with subscriptions to @NatGeo - many thanks to @RosemaryCounter for a positive write-up of recent discoveries on the #PrincesintheTower and #RichardIII - nationalgeographic.com/history/articl…

My latest, in Law & History Review, is now out on FirstView - on 'The Isle of Man, Channel Islands & Statutes of the English Parliament, to 1640: Development & Change in Territorial Extent' Thanks to the team at CUP for their help @cambridgeup @gauthamrao doi.org/10.1017/S07382…

My blog with @boydellbrewer Proofed has just been published, following the publication of my work on the Royal Charters of #Jersey boydellandbrewer.com/blog/medieval-…

Now out this week in paperback - our book on the illegitimate children and relationships of the northern gentry and nobility, from the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War, with @ManchesterUP - great value at just £25! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526114075/

Very moving scenes from the Auschwitz event yesterday #HMD2025 - this evening we will be marking the commemorations here @HuddersfieldUni with our partners @holocaustnorth & others holocaustcentrenorth.org.uk/events/holocau…

The @HuddersfieldUni journal of taught student research - Fields - is ten years old. A pioneer in expanding publishing opportunities for undergrad researchers, now widely emulated elsewhere. @HudUniPress @WeLoveResearch fieldsjournal.org.uk/issue/49/info/

Great launch event last Wednesday on campus here @HuddersfieldUni for West Yorkshire Creative Health Hub, a first for West Yorkshire - with @MayorOfWY and great partners @KirkleesCouncil @Calderdale @MyWakefield @bradford2025 @allofusinmind @ace_thenorth and many others

Great story in today's @guardian from @ChrisOsuh on @HuddersfieldUni National Health Innovation Campus & the inspiring figure whose name its 1st building carries: Daphne Steele, the @NHSuk first black matron @KirkleesCouncil @WYpartnership @westyorkshireca theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

January 2025 issue of @BBCHistoryMag now out - with discoveries on #RichardIII and #princesintheTower from @channel5_tv @LionTelevision & @histassoc @HisJournalHA on the front page

Good to see the publication of the second Postgraduate Researcher edition of #Fields the journal of @HuddersfieldUni student research - making the best of research-student papers available to a global audience @WeLoveResearch @HudUniPress @HudResEnv fieldsjournal.org.uk/issue/current/

The @channel5_tv @LionTelevision documentary on #RichardIII & the #princesintheTower still generating a lot of interest - available to catch up via channel5.com/show/princes-i…

Anyone wanting to read further on my earlier research on Thomas More, #RichardIII & the #princesintheTower after last night's fascinating @channel5_tv @LionTelevision documentary with @Jason__Watkins & @TracyBorman can find it available at @HisJournalHA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Looking forward to this evening's screening of the @channel5_tv / @LionTelevision documentary featuring my research on #RichardIII and the #princesintheTower My earlier work on this topic, featured on @Lucy_Worsley Investigates, is still available bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b…

Lots of interest today in my research on #RichardIII and the #princesintheTower just published in History, journal of the Historical Association @histassoc - e.g. in @thetimes editorial. The underlying research is freely accessible to all via the story at hud.ac.uk/news/2024/nove…

Just gone live on @thetimes website - exclusive report on my latest research on Richard III & the 'princes in the Tower', out soon in History, the journal of the Historical Association @histassoc @UkNatArchives @HRP_palaces #RichardIII #princesinthetower thetimes.com/uk/history/art…

Good to see colleagues @Soc_Jersiaise during my visit to Jersey last week to launch The Royal Charters of Jersey boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651214/… - sorry not to be able to stay for this week's launch of The Assize Roll of 1299, edited by Simon Harris societe.je/societe-jersia…

Many thanks to friends in Jersey for support at the launch of my 'Royal Charters of Jersey' from @boydellbrewer yesterday, with the Jersey Legal Information Board @Jerseylegalinfo at the @JerseyHeritage Archive, & esp to @bailiffofjersey Sir Timothy le Coq boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651214/…

Excellent event last evening in Manchester to launch Prof Anne Curry's important new volume for the Chetham Society - Henry V and the Earldom of Chester, 1399-1422. @CheshireRO @HSLC1848 @LocalCheshire @ChesterArchSoc @UkNatArchives Further details at chethamsociety.org.uk/publications/t…

Campus @HuddersfieldUni looking great this morning - bookings for #HudOpenDay Saturday 23 November well up on last year, and I'm looking forward to meeting all our visitors and applicants tomorrow hud.ac.uk/open-days/

A great pleasure to show Dr Milton Brown of @KirkleesLocalTV round the Daphne Steele Building at the @HuddersfieldUni National Health Innovation Campus - real potential to work together on health, care, & wellbeing innovation and skills with regional and local impact