Centre for Editing Lives and Letters

Early Bodleian Donations Online
We are pleased to announce the launch of Early Bodleian Donations Online, a digital resource which tracks the donors and donations to the Bodleian Library in the years 1600-1620. The searchable database contains bibliographical information about the items donated and biographical detail about the donors.

EBDO The Project Figure 1. Bodleian Library, Oxford: bird’s eye view (detail), line engraving. Image credit: Wellcome Library, London. This AHRC-funded 3-year project seeks to uncover the stories behind the books on the shelves at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Our focus is on the first two decades foll...

IAS Book Launch: Body Size in Early Modern Germany The IAS is pleased to welcome author Holly Fletcher, whose book overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness simply signified wealth while thinness indicated poverty.

The more things change - Digital Humanities in a tumultuous world UCLDH is delighted to welcome Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, to give the 2026 Susan Hockey Lecture.

Taster session: Early Modern Studies MA
1st May, 2-3:30pm BST, online
Our MA provides expert training for future researchers, teaching palaeography, book history & archival research skills, alongside options from art history, information studies, literary studies, history, languages & history of science/medicine. At this Graduate Open Event, we will run a short taster lecture, outline the nature of the course and hold a Q&A.
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