Norwich History Festival talk 2025
A talk by Browne champion Marion Catlin about the life of Thomas Browne and why he should be better known and appreciated in his adopted home town of Norwich. The talk is at St Peter Mancroft on July 22nd at 3pm. You can find out more and book tickets here
Sir Thomas Browne Day
Friday 19 October 2018
10.30am Talk and tour of St Peter Mancroft Church by Barbara Miller - at St Peter Mancroft Church, Hay Hill, Norwich
12.30-1.30pm Performance on Hay Hill by Kevin Faulkner - a costumed recitation of Letter to a Friend -
Stay for the whole performance or drop in and drop out
7pm Sir Thomas Browne Annual Talk by George Szirtes - at the National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, King Street, Norwich
12.30-1.30pm Performance on Hay Hill by Kevin Faulkner - a costumed recitation of Letter to a Friend -
Stay for the whole performance or drop in and drop out
7pm Sir Thomas Browne Annual Talk by George Szirtes - at the National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, King Street, Norwich
Past events
Talk by Kevin Killeen in Norwich on Wednesday 27 June 2018
At The Chapel, 64 Park Lane, Norwich 6.30pm for 6.45pm start
A talk by Dr Kevin Killeen
The cusp of life and death: Sir Thomas Browne and the religion of a physician
Sir Thomas Browne MD, a collector of curiosities, debunker of myths, inspiration to writers and doctors alike, coiner of words, owner of a live ostrich and expert witness at a witch trial. Sir Thomas Browne is probably the greatest British genius the vast majority of British people have never even heard of.
He was also a renowned physician, wrote some of the most beautiful prose in English and has long figured in the history of medicine and the humanities. His most famous work, Religio Medici, 'the Religion of a Physician', deals with the relation between the body and soul, the cusp of life and death.
In his talk, Dr Kevin Killeen will address Browne's intellectual world, his experiments and how he understood the mesh of science, humanities and the religious.
Dr Kevin Killeen is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of York. He is one of the editors of the Oxford Works of Sir Thomas Browne. He has written several books, on Browne, on seventeenth century politics and religion and on the history of science.
Pay what you can on the door, suggestion £3-£5
Please reserve a place here
At The Chapel, 64 Park Lane, Norwich 6.30pm for 6.45pm start
A talk by Dr Kevin Killeen
The cusp of life and death: Sir Thomas Browne and the religion of a physician
Sir Thomas Browne MD, a collector of curiosities, debunker of myths, inspiration to writers and doctors alike, coiner of words, owner of a live ostrich and expert witness at a witch trial. Sir Thomas Browne is probably the greatest British genius the vast majority of British people have never even heard of.
He was also a renowned physician, wrote some of the most beautiful prose in English and has long figured in the history of medicine and the humanities. His most famous work, Religio Medici, 'the Religion of a Physician', deals with the relation between the body and soul, the cusp of life and death.
In his talk, Dr Kevin Killeen will address Browne's intellectual world, his experiments and how he understood the mesh of science, humanities and the religious.
Dr Kevin Killeen is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of York. He is one of the editors of the Oxford Works of Sir Thomas Browne. He has written several books, on Browne, on seventeenth century politics and religion and on the history of science.
Pay what you can on the door, suggestion £3-£5
Please reserve a place here
