To celebrate Black History Month 2023, join Dr Frances Sands, Curator of Drawings and Books, for a session focusing on the various items of pro-emancipation literature within Sir John Soane’s collection.
Join us for a discussion on the theme of light in public entertainments in the Georgian era and today, with co-curator Dr Melanie Doderer-Winkler, conservator Zenzie Tinker and installation artist Nayan Kulkarni.
In this talk, Penelope Corfield explores the clever showmanship of the impresario Jonathan Tyers and the eager expectations of the crowds who thronged to Vauxhall in their thousands.
To celebrate the 400th birthday of the First Folio, join Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, Oxford for a talk which will focus on how this book was produced, and on what is special about the Soane copy in particular.
