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Introductionto the Electronic Enlightenment project

With 58,555 letters and documents and 7,113 correspondents as of October 2010, EE www.e-enlightenment.com/ is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

Scholarship with added value

Drawn from the best available critical editions, EE is not simply an “electronic bookshelf” of isolated texts but a network of interconnected documents, allowing you to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period and the making of the modern world.

Letters and lives in Electronic Enlightenment

The rich variety of people in EE represents a real cross-section of early modern society in Europe and the Americas:  the ideas and concerns not only of thinkers and scholars, politicians and diplomats, but also butchers and housewives, servants and shopkeepers. With a wealth of personal detail revealed, you can explore as never before the relationships, correspondence networks and movement of ideas, the letters and lives of the early modern world.

Find out more at a presentation by Robert McNamee (Director, Electronic Enlightenment Project), open to all Oxford University students and staff.

Date and booking details:  Wednesday 10 November, 10-11am, Radcliffe Science Library (Training Room).  To book a place please contact juliet.ralph@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

 

Find digital images for History of Science

We subscribe to two of the biggest image databases, ARTstor and Bridgeman Education. They contain a million high-quality images suitable for use in papers and presentations. Both comprehensively cover locations, subjects, periods and media, but their content can be vastly different. Navigation and tools (eg Print, Save, Send) also differ.

ARTstor www.artstor.org  and Bridgeman www.bridgemaneducation.com are not just for artists! They include images relevant to history of science and medicine, social sciences, as well as archaeology, art and architecture and the humanities.

Find out more about the science-related content, searching and using images, at a presentation open to all Oxford University students and staff.  The second half is a chance to practice; if you are unable to stay for the full two hours, you are still very welcome to attend.

 

Date and booking details: Please book your place with Juliet Ralph juliet.ralph@bodleian.ox.ac.uk .