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  • Home
    • The strange case of the skull
    • About
    • Funding support
  • Public Art
    • Public Art : Thomas Browne by henry Pegram
    • Public Art : Homage to Sir Thomas Browne
    • Talking Statues
    • Tazro Niscino installation
  • Champions
    • Barbara Miller OBE
    • Dr Kevin Killeen
    • Anthony Batty Shaw
    • Kevin Faulkner
    • Hugh Aldersey Williams
    • Professor Claire Preston
    • Maggie Wheeler
  • His Life
  • His works
    • Overview of major works
  • Events
    • Past events
  • Links
    • In Our Time
    • Articles
  • Publications
    • Essays by Kevin Faulkner
    • Adventures of STB in 21st C
  • Gallery
  • How Thomas Browne are you?
  • Thomas Browne Blog
  • Thomas Browne around Norwich
  • Stories and anecdotes
    • A Cabinet of Rarities
    • A humorous take on STB
  • FLOW : Temporary art commissions

Links to other resources

For visitors to Norwich
Check out " 
https://www.momondo.se/city-guides/discover-norwich.17064.guide.ksp  momondo’s Norwich Guide for travel inspiration 
About his literary style
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Browne
Queen Mary University of London
Dr Claire Preston and her team at Queen Mary University have been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to edit a complete works of Sir Thomas Browne
www.thomasbrowne.qmul.ac.uk/
Listen to Professor Claire Preston and Hugh Aldersey Williams discussing Thomas Browne on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking, originally broadcast on Tuesday 5th May 2015.
Royal College of Physicians
www.rcplondon.ac.uk/events/cabinet-rarities-curious-collections-sir-thomas-browne
Kevin Michael Faulkner is a long-time exponent of Sir Thomas Browne and an expert on his works. He describes himself as 'a Norvicensian scholar of the arts, Sir Thomas Browne and the esoteric'. 
​He is sometimes encountered re-enacting the man himself on Hay Hill and in other corners of Norwich and maintains these two sites - a blog and a Facebook page dedicated to Sir Thomas and well worth reading. He has also written some essays over the years and is continually updating his knowledge and thoughts about Browne and his work.  So please follow and 'like' for up-to-date snippets from the very knowledgable Kevin Faulkner.
www.aquariumofvulcan.blogspot.co.uk/
http://aquariumofvulcan.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/stargazing-with-dr-browne.html
Essays by Kevin Faulkner
Kevin Faulkner has been an enthusiast and Browne scholar for many years and has written a number of essays which are published in different places. Here are some links to essays. Of particular interest is the link between Julian of Norwich - another important Norwich thinker - read about it here and a further essay about his spirituality here.
Krzysztof Fijalkowski's monograph on The Garden of Cyrus is an accessible, short, yet rewarding read. 
www.gardenofcyrus.co.uk
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​A letter from Samuel Coleridge on Browne
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Kevin Faulkner performing as Sir Thomas Browne in 2007 at the launch of the Poirier work on Hay Hill

Blogs to follow

Literary Norfolk
https://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/Norwich/sir_thomas_browne.htm
Colonel Unthank's Norwich blog - as well as info about Sir Thomas, also many other interesting articles
https://colonelunthanksnorwich.com/2020/07/15/thomas-brownes-world/

Articles by Browne

Sir Thomas Browne on vegetarianism here

Articles by others

​About Sir Thomas Browne
The Culture Concert Circle 

https://www.thecultureconcept.com/a-cabinet-of-rarities-property-of-the-genius-you-wont-know
Guardian review of Reid Barbour's book 
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/18/sir-thomas-browne-reid-barbour-review​

Guardian article - mythbusters
https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2015/may/13/do-snails-have-eyes-seventeenth-century-mythbuster-and-science-communicator-sir-thomas-browne-investigates​
Public Domain Review
This is an extremely interesting website full of resources about Browne and other interesting people and ideas
Virginia Woolf wrote a few paragraphs on Browne,
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/woolf.html#lumber
Dr Anthony Batty Shaw  (known as ‘Tony’) was a senior physician at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and also a medical historian. Tony was born in London, where his father, Harold Batty Shaw [Munk’s Roll, Vol.IV, p.467], was a distinguished physician on the staff of University College Hospital. His mother, Muriel Agnes Eillison Shaw née Watson, was an accomplished musician and violinist and he wrote several publications about Sir Thomas Browne. He lived in Norwich for many years until he moved to the West Country in his latter years. He died in March 2015 aged 92.
LINKS AND FURTHER READING from Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time programme on BBC Radio 4 broadcast Thursday 6 June 2019
Claire Preston at Queen Mary University of London
Jessica Wolfe at the University of North Carolina
Kevin Killeen at the University of York
Sir Thomas Browne – University of Chicago
Sir Thomas Browne website
‘Doubting Thomas’ (Alexander Nazaryan, 22 August 2012) – The New Yorker
Thomas Browne – Wikipedia

READING LIST:
Hugh Aldersey-Williams, The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century (Granta, 2015)
Reid Barbour, Thomas Browne: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Reid Barbour and Claire Preston (eds.), Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Joan Bennett, Sir Thomas Browne: A Man of Achievement in Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1962)
Thomas Browne (ed. Kevin Killeen), Thomas Browne: Selected Writings (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Thomas Browne (ed. C. A. Patrides), Selected Works of Sir Thomas Browne, (Penguin, 1977)
Thomas Browne (ed. Claire Preston) Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, (Carcanet, 1995)
Daniela Havenstein, Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici and its Imitators (Clarendon Press, 1999)
Kevin Killeen, Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge (Routledge, 2009)
Egon Stephen Merton, Science and Imagination in Sir Thomas Browne (King’s Crown Press, 1949)
Kathryn Murphy and Richard Todd, (eds.), “A man very well studyed”: New Contexts for Thomas Browne (Brill, 2009)
Leonard Nathanson, The Strategy of Truth: A Study of Sir Thomas Browne(The University of Chicago Press, 1967)
C. A. Patrides (ed.), Approaches to Sir Thomas Browne (University of Missouri Press, 1982)
Claire Preston, Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science (Cambridge University Press, 2005
Artist Book
Also writer Carolyn Trant came to the Turn the Page Artists'  Book Fair with her hand-printed book inspired by STB.
​She lives and works in Lewes in Sussex but knows about Sir Thomas from visits to Norwich 

see http://carolyntrantparvenu.blogspot.co.uk/
This site is part of the Thomas Browne Project with the aim to collate information and contributions about Sir Thomas Browne, his work, life and times in Norwich and make them accessible to the public,  edited and published by Marion Catlin of The Shift Norwich
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