Teaching using Electronic Enlightenment
EE makes it easy to put together a teaching pack or reading list for your students, whether by theme, event, or group.
Search lives
The Search lives page (subscribers only) can identify, for example:
- people involved in slavery and abolition (including slaves, slave traders and abolitionists);
- members of networks of spies, spymasters and secret agents;
- the many revolutionaries and radicals of 18th-century Europe and North and South America
Many of the people in EE have links to other scholarly online resources, such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, American National Biography or Encyclopaedia of the Enlightenment, which provide further detailed biographical information if needed.
Search letters
The Search letters page (subscribers only) can be used, for example, to find letters linked to:
- major historical events such as the American War of Independence, the French Revolution or the South Sea Bubble;
- discussions of scientific discoveries, philosophical trends or medical advances;
- the mundane realities of daily life from the 17th to the 19th century: births, deaths and marriages, food and drink, working, shopping, going to church, news and gossip