A body of knowledge: winter lectures

Join Royal College of Physicians Museum online for an expert lectures evening as part of exhibition ‘A body of knowledge’.

Rare books librarian and lead curator of ‘A body of knowledge’, Katie Birkwood will share a virtual tour of our exhibition. Dr Alice Wickenden, an early career fellow at the University of Cambridge will explore ‘Moving libraries: from the personal to the institutional’ using the collections of the British Library and RCP.

Finally, doctoral researcher at UCL, Samantha Brown will discuss ‘Islamic knowledge in an Elizabethan physician’s library: Lancelot Browne and his Arabic books’.