e-enlightenment
@eEnlightenment
Online collection of edited correspondence, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
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/newssheet…
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.uk/event/a-sympos… @TORCHOxford @BSECS @EngFac18thC @BARS_official @bodleianlibs
#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 bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-awa…
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: emco.swansea.ac.uk/emco/correspon…
Electronic Enlightenment has now joined B*sky - please follow along there for more updates and news - bsky.app/profile/eenlig…
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/newssheet…
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 doi.org/10.13051/ee:bi…
We are pleased to announce our Winter 2018-2019 update, read our news-sheet for the details e-enlightenment.com/newssheet/late…
We are pleased to announce our Autumn 2017 update, read our news-sheet for the details —e-enlightenment.com/newssheet/2017…
A library in letters: the Bodleian by Amelia Carruthers blog.oup.com/2017/02/bodlei…
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Seminar Hilary Term 2017 recsoxford.org/2017/01/06/eig…
We are pleased to announce our Autumn 2016 update, read our news-sheet for the details — e-enlightenment.com/newssheet/late…
Speaking in Absence: Letters in the Digital Age — Reminder that conference registration closes tonight e-pistolary.net/speaking-in-ab…
The latest Electronic Enlightenment update is now live, adding letters not available anywhere else: oxford.ly/1X9URU8 @eEnlightenment
A letter from 'Thomas #Hobbes to his true friend, the very learned Samuel Sorbière' #philosopherotm oxford.ly/1VH5myV
Thomas #Hobbes is our May 2016 #philosopherotm! Enjoy these Oxford resources on this great political thinker bit.ly/1PSXGDl