Uncovering Uncomfortable Truths: St Cecilia’s Hall and the Slave Trade

14 Nov 2023

The November installment of this informal talk series aims to provide an overview of  the museum’s connections to the slave trade and will include two short talks.

Talk One: Uncovering Uncomfortable Truths: St Cecilia’s Hall and the Slave Trade by one of our curators and a museum volunteer will discuss the origins of our building.

Talk Two: From Caribbean Cays to Clavichord Keys: Global Material Histories of Eighteenth-Century Keyboards at St Cecilia’s by Dr Paul Newton-Jackson.

Audiences welcome to arrive from 17:40 onward.

By St Cecilia’s Hall, The University of Edinburgh

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