Sandars Lectures 2025 Focus on Buying and Selling Archives
This year's Sandars Lectures on how archives have been bought and sold over the last 50 years will begin tonight and continue tomorrow in-person and live-streamed.
Titled What will survive of us, Joan Winterkorn's two lectures will look at subjects such as influencing government policy, and how some of the UK’s most significant literary archives have been safeguarded, using practical examples such as collections acquired and preserved over the past half a century related to Siegfried Sassoon, Laurence Olivier, Winston Churchill, Muriel Spark, and Francis Crick.
Lecture 1 tonight (5pm-6pm) will be Collecting and preserving contemporary and historic archives , and Lecture 2 tomorrow (also 5pm-6pm) is entitled A jigsaw with no edge pieces and will concentrate on how archival collections across institutions relate to one another.
Winterkorn has been an independent advisor on archives and manuscripts since 2012, beginnng her career as an archivist in London and then a rare book librarian at Cornell University before joining Bernard Quaritch Ltd in 1979. She is also a Trustee of the Friends of the National Libraries, served on the Acceptance in Lieu Panel, and was on the Editorial Board of the Book Collector. In December 2023 she was awarded an MBE for services to heritage and culture.
Lectures will be held in-person at at the Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge, live-streamed via Zoom, and recorded. Attendance is free but requires booking.
