The Sanchos in 2024: A symposium to celebrate Charles Ignatius Sancho’s Letters in Electronic Enlightenment
To celebrate the launch of the letters of Charles Ignatius Sancho in Electronic Enlightenment, the Centre for Digital Scholarship and Electronic Enlightenment team are hosting a half-day, in-person, academic symposium exploring the life and legacy of a man who, born into slavery, became a composer, shopkeeper, and man-of-letters.

While Sancho scholars benefit from his extensive epistolary documentation of his life and the circles he moved in, from the back rooms of elite manors, to the theatrical and commercial spheres of London, his wife Anne and his children remain comparatively silent presences in the archive. This symposium brings together generations of editors of Sancho’s letters, with creative and critical practitioners, to explore how Ignatius, Anne, and Elizabeth Sancho come to us today.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Date: 5 November 2024, 12:00
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Centre for Digital Scholarship
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Bodleian Libraries
Part of: Bodleian Events
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/oxford/the-sanchos-in-2024-symposium
Cost: Free
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Belinda Clark