The Libraries are pleased to provide you with access to Electronic Enlightenment, a database of 58,555 interconnected letters and documents linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

Through EE you can see 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 detail revealed in these personal documents, you can explore as never before the relationships, correspondence networks and movement of ideas, the letters and lives of the early modern world.

Look through Electronic Enlightenment now, and share your comments on this rich resource!