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Portrait of Ernst Salomon Cyprian, by Christian Schilbach

A Central German Court Scholar with European Connections

the correspondence of Isaac Casaubon

Clusters, continued collaborations, and the correspondence of Isaac Casaubon

Detail showing the signature of Margaret Fell,

Margaret Fell: a constant through difficult and dangerous times

Detail from the portrait of Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein the younger.

‘Bring up’ the transcriptions: the letters of Thomas Cromwell

Wives of William of Orange

The four wives of William of Orange: a day of celebration

Samuel Rutherford, attributed to Robert Walker. (University of St Andrew; source of image: Wikimedia Commons)

A ‘starter’ instalment of Samuel Rutherford’s letters

Banner for Ioannes Dantiscus: the Corpus of Texts and Correspondence

Ioannes Dantiscus: the Corpus of Texts and Correspondence

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel website image

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: a timely archival collaboration

Title page of ‘Opera didactica omnia’ (Amsterdam, 1657). (Source of image: MAnnheimer TExte Online)

‘Reading Comenius’

Digitizing Enlightenment cover

Digitizing Enlightenment: a volume for our times

Austin Friars, c. 1550. Copperplate. (Source of image: Wikimedia Commons)

The Dutch Church in London archive: a fresh upload

Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire. (Image © National Trust)

Isaac Newton: letters, papers, dates, plague … plus links to an inspirational project

Samuel Rutherford, attributed to Robert Walker. (University of St Andrew; source of image: Wikimedia Commons)

Fulvio Orsini: librarian to the Farnese

Halley to Aubrey of 16/26 November 1679. (Bodleian Libraries, MS Aubrey 42, fol. 148)

Halley, Aubrey, and ‘the Arch-conjurer’

Letter by Daniel Gyldenstolpe to Nils Gyldenstolpe dated 20 August 1676. (Nordin 469:45; image courtesy of Uppsala University Library)

In praise of twenty-first century scholarly networks!

John Milton (1608–1674)

‘liberal measure … from the Muses’ spring’: the correspondence of John Milton

EMLO page

The Royal Society’s Early Letters

Correspondance d’Isabelle de Charrière

The letters of Belle van Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière (1740– 1805)

Portrait of Guglielmo Sirleto. Seventeenth-century engraving. (Image: Jan Machielsen)

Guglielmo Sirleto, a British Academy grant, and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Portrait of Charlotte Suzanne d’Aine (left) and Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach (right) by Louis Carmontelle.

‘Vivre heureux’ et ‘faire des heureux’: the correspondence of Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach

‘Benito Arias Montano: Epistolario’, Univeristy of Cadiz

The humanist, biblical scholar, and hebraist Benito Arias Montano, and ‘Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age’

Tycho Brahe and Johannes Keper, Hradčany, Prague. (Source of image: Wikimedia Commons)

Exemplary collaboration: a new upload of metadata for the correspondence of Johannes Kepler

Detail of the goblet created by Nicolaas Loockemans and presented to Cornelis de Witt

‘Mijnheer ende broeder’: letters from Cornelis de Witt to his brother Johan

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, by Achille Devéria,

The life, the letters, and the legacy of Mary Wortley Montagu

‘Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750’ book cover

‘Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750’

Detail from the portrait of Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau-Siegen,, by Jan de Baen. c. 1668–70. (The Mauritshuis, The Hague

Shifts in perspective: the life and legacies of Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen

Wooden Worlds: The Bodleian’s iconic ‘Index of Literary of Correspondence’, pictured in situ at the so-called ‘Selden End’ of Duke Humfrey’s Library.

Ghosts in the Machine: (Re)Constructing the Bodleian’s Index of Literary Correspondence, 1927–1963