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DH Open Office Hours: Mapping Ignatius Sancho's London
For this week's Open Office Hours, Dr. Olly Ayers from the New College of the Humanities London speaks on his ongoing DH mapping project.
This work-in-progress talk will report on a collaborative project between NU's London and Boston campuses that is mapping the world of Ignatius Sancho–one of the eighteenth century’s most important Black Britons. A prodigious letter writer, Sancho owned a shop at 19 Charles Street in Westminster, a vantage point—at a literal cross-roads in London—that allowed him to meet innumerable people and observe various events that are narrated in the letters. By creating a digital map of his experiences and connections, and layering this alongside new data capturing the experience of Black Londoners more broadly, the project also aims at the larger imperative of improving scholarly and public understandings of the local and international cross-currents within Black history.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
- Date:
- Wednesday, March 2, 2022
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Audience:
- Alumni Faculty General Public Graduate Students Students
- Categories:
- Digital Scholarship
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