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.