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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. https://www.e-enlightenment.com Based at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
ECR Book proposal workshop. Perfect your book proposal with OUP editors. When? 23-26 June 2025, Multiple sessions, Digital workshops. Reserve your spot now.
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...
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Two online courses available! tinyurl.com/38en9ctp
Intro to #digitalhumanities
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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:
11.04.2025 14:00 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I 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.
07.04.2025 15:07 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0van 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:
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Tessa van Wijk, student collaborator from Radboud University, analysed slavery and enslavement across the Electronic Enlightenment collection & edited selected letters from the plantation papers of the Barham family.
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UNIQ+ interns Sophie Dickson and Olivia Flynn worked on the letters written from Charles Julius Betram to the antiquarian William Stukeley, which attest to one of the greatest frauds in English antiquarian history:
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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
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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)
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/
06.02.2024 06:58 — 👍 12 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 5Electronic 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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