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Electronic Enlightenment

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With over 80,000 letters and documents and 10,300 correspondents as of Spring 2025, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period. www.e-enlightenment.com Based at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford

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Electronic Enlightenment @eenlightenment.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Our Spring 2026 update has now gone live - featuring the correspondence of physician, naturalist, and paragon of the Midlands Enlightenment - Erasmus Darwin - as well as 63 letters from the Bernardin de Saint Pierre project and 98 new or updated biographies. www.e-enlightenment.com
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Electronic Enlightenment: Letters & Lives
Electronic Enlightenment, University of Oxford. Digitizing letters from the 17th–19th centuries, reconnecting the first global social networks.
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Electronic Enlightenment @eenlightenment.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We start 2026 with some significant changes to Electronic Enlightenment — a new site design and an updated authentication system. Our editors have been busy too and we're pleased to add over a thousand new letters in this update. - www.e-enlightenment.com #18thCentury #DigitalHumanities
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Electronic Enlightenment: Letters & Lives
Electronic Enlightenment, University of Oxford. Digitizing letters from the 17th–19th centuries, reconnecting the first global social networks.
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Electronic Enlightenment @eenlightenment.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
For Oxford students - would you like an opportunity to get hands-on with 18th century manuscripts, come along next Thursday to our Bodleian student editions workshop and transcribe, annotate, and catalogue some original manuscript letters: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...
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Maria Zygogianni @mariazygogianni.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Are you an #ECR or #postdoc looking to publish your first academic book? Join our digital workshop for personalised feedback on your book proposal from experienced OUP Editors and ECR peers. 📖 Reserve your spot: oxford.ly/ECR-Proposal... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
ECR Book proposal workshop. Perfect your book proposal with OUP editors. When? 23-26 June 2025, Multiple sessions, Digital workshops. Reserve your spot now.
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dhoxss.bsky.social @dhoxss.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Two online courses available! tinyurl.com/38en9ctp Intro to #digitalhumanities AI in Research Libraries @david.deroure.org @jarona7.bsky.social @williamjnixon.bsky.social @andrewcusworth.bsky.social @rluk.ac.uk @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @aadh.bsky.social
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Digital Scholarship at Oxford @discoxford.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The next Bodleian Student Editions session will run on 29th April – it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about editing and transcribing early modern letters. Find out more and sign up:
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Bodleian Student Editions
Would you like to contribute to the discovery of new research materials in the Bodleian’s manuscript collections? And to learn something about editing early modern letters and approaches to digital…
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Kate Davies @katedaviesdesigns.com · 07/04/2025
I contributed an introduction to some newly-edited letters of Phillis Wheatley Peters, the first woman of African descent to publish poetry in Britain & the United States.
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Electronic Enlightenment @eenlightenment.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We are very excited to announce our Spring 2025 update, which adds 40 born digital letters edited by Electronic Enlightenment’s interns and visiting researchers, the results of collaborations with @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Special Collections & beyond: www.e-enlightenment.com/blog/newsshe...
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EE News-sheet — Spring 2025
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Digital Scholarship at Oxford @discoxford.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The next Bodleian Student Editions session will be held on the 27th February – it’s a great opportunity for students to contribute to the discovery of new research materials in the Bodleian’s manuscript collections. Find out more + sign up here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Submissions are invited for the BSECS PGR & ECR Conference, to be held at Uppsala University, 22/23 August 2024. The theme this year is 'Communication and Exchange' #18thC 🗃️ #skystorians
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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Ta DAH! It’s our 2024 seminar series! Join us in conversation with some brilliant scholars, incl our own postgraduates! Free, online, & all welcome! Thursdays, 6-7 pm. @SMCoulombeau & @TinoOudesluijs kick us off on 29/2. More details & sign ups here: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/
Our ‘In Conversation’ poster featuring King George III and his Queen at tea with some worried looking girls (who we’ve used as the image of our postgrads) and advertising the first talk on Mary Hamilton, Patricia Pulham on Decadent Moods (Tuesday 19th March), those postgrads doing flash talks (11th April), and Kayla Probeyahn on Wollstonecraft’s Breasts (25th April)
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Electronic Enlightenment @eenlightenment.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
Electronic Enlightenment are so happy to be making our Bluesky debut with an exciting new update, 173 new letters, 2 new blog posts, and some updates from our exciting work with fellow projects at the Bodleian Library - www.e-enlightenment.com/blog/newsshe...
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EE News-sheet — Autumn 2023
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