Online collection of edited correspondence, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
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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. e-enlightenment.com/blog/new…
We are happy to announce our newest update - we have added over 200 letters by the shopkeeper, composer and man of letters, Charles Ignatius Sancho (c.1729–1780) and his circle - adding a whole new strand of Black British history to our collection - e-enlightenment.com/blog/new…
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Join us to celebrate the launch of the letters of Charles Ignatius Sancho in @eenlightenment on the 5th November in the Weston Library – this symposium will bring together editors with creative & critical practitioners to discuss the letters. Find out more bit.ly/SanchoSymposium
Hello - for anyone based in Oxford, Electronic Enlightenment is running a half-day symposium on the letters and legacy of Charles Ignatius Sancho and his family at the Weston Library on 5 Nov: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac…
@TORCHOxford @BSECS @EngFac18thC @BARS_official @bodleianlibs
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#FUNDING update: the deadline for the BSECS-Georgian Papers Fellowship is the 1 FEBRUARY 2024, *not the date listed on our webpage [due to technical issues that we are working to resolve*
#18thC #twitterstorians @GeorgianPapers
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New Section Alert! Our first published section of the year is now live - you can find the fully edited collection of Mary Hamilton's letters here:
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Electronic Enlightenment has now joined B*sky - please follow along there for more updates and news - bsky.app/profile/eenlightenm…
Our Autumn 2023 update adds new material from English Showalter, The Correspondence of Madame de Graffigny. Two new blog posts and some past & future conference news. e-enlightenment.com/blog/new…
Our Autumn 22 update has 400+ new docs on Pierre Beaumarchais, Voltaire editor & author of the Marriage of Figaro, on his work with the Courier de l’Europe – read about revolutionary politics, journalistic scandals, & publishing work in our news sheet:
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Read our new blog by Enlightenment scholar Prof Gregory Brown on where our new update fits in the 200-year history of editing Beaumarchais’ letters, and why his archive matters in studies of the 18th century:
#letters #frenchhistory #digitalhumanities
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For this update’s Letter of Note, historian of 18th century Women’s letters Dr Kelsey Rubin-Detlev takes us through a witty 1738 letter by novelist & socialite Madame de Graffigny, exploring the ways it plays with proximity & distance in the letter form:
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Born #OnThisDay, 1762, Montagu Pennington (1762-1849) wrote a biography of famous classicist Elizabeth Carter, as well as editing her works and those of her fellow essayist, Catherine Talbot - he also wrote devotional essays & acted as curate of Deal, Kent
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We are pleased to announce our Winter 2018-2019 update, read our news-sheet for the details e-enlightenment.com/newsshee…
We are pleased to announce our Autumn 2017 update, read our news-sheet for the details —e-enlightenment.com/newsshee…
A library in letters: the Bodleian by Amelia Carruthers blog.oup.com/2017/02/bodleia…
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Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Seminar Hilary Term 2017 recsoxford.org/2017/01/06/ei…
We are pleased to announce our Autumn 2016 update, read our news-sheet for the details — e-enlightenment.com/newsshee…
Speaking in Absence: Letters in the Digital Age — Reminder that conference registration closes tonight e-pistolary.net/speaking-in-…
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The latest Electronic Enlightenment update is now live, adding letters not available anywhere else: oxford.ly/1X9URU8 @eEnlightenment
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A letter from 'Thomas #Hobbes to his true friend, the very learned Samuel Sorbière' #philosopherotm oxford.ly/1VH5myV