Lunchtime Lecture: James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge

Different speakers, different subjects! Free lunchtime lecture on Thursdays from 12.30-1.20pm at Bristol Central Library.

Lunchtime Lecture: For Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Bristol Physician and his Patients Two Centuries Ago

The Early Victorian scientist James Cowles Prichard was a psychiatric theorist of international reputation, the founder of the British science of anthropology and the first linguist to demonstrate that Celtic is a member of the Indo-European language family. He is also considered to be the greatest anti-racist scientist of the nineteenth century. But when not entertaining fellow intellectuals at the Red Lodge, Dr. Prichard was a physician to the rich and poor of Bristol.

Author Margaret Crump’s illustrated talk on Dr. Prichard’s medical practice marks the publication of her biography, James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge: A Life of Science During the Age of Improvement, University of Nebraska Press, 2025.

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• This Sunday, 25th May, 02:00 pm, Special Collections Sunday : Samuel Loxton’s Bristol in Bristol
• Next month, 22nd June, 02:00 pm, Special Collections Sunday : Botanical Books in Bristol

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