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

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

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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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

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

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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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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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.

Electronic Enlightenment@eenlightenment.bsky.social · last yr.

van Wijk and the Electronic Enlightenment team edited letters by or about the poet Phillis Wheatley, from manuscript images shared by @mhs1791.bsky.social - for which historian and knitwear designer @katedaviesdesigns.bsky.social shared an introduction: www.e-enlightenment.com/blog/article...

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...

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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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

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/

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...