Tag Archives: Bright’s disease

Heritage Open Days 2022 at Norfolk Record Office

Posted on September 28, 2022 by nroeando2017

This year to mark Heritage Open Days (HODs), we invited members of the public to take a peek behind the scenes, gave a talk about Richard Bright ‘The Man Behind the Discovery of Bright’s Disease’ and the Conservation project at … Continue reading →

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Conserving the Richard Bright Collection

Posted on March 15, 2020 by elizabethjayne2015

Dr Richard Bright is a key figure in the history of medicine and intellectual life, famous for his work in nephrology and discovery of Bright’s disease, but also active in other areas, including natural history, geology, anthropology and travel. Bright … Continue reading →

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‘Such Facts as Seem to Throw Light Upon Each Other’ Conserving The Papers of Dr Richard Bright

Posted on June 23, 2017 by victoriadraper24

On the 30 May our collection care team welcomed a project conservator, David Parker. For the next two years, he will be working for the new project involving the conservation of the 19th century papers of Dr Richard Bright. Richard Bright … Continue reading →

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