Lectures available from Kevin Brown historian, writer, archivist, museum curator,experienced speaker and lecturer

1. Lectures available from
Kevin Brown

2. Kevin Brown is Trust Archivist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and
Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum Curator at St Mary’s Hospital in London
where he set up the Archives Service and Museum. He is former Chairman of
the London Museums of Health and Medicine. He has written a number of
books on the history of health and medicine and is an experienced speaker.
This is a selection of talks he has given.

3. Kevin Brown has lectured widely in Britain and abroad,
including:
*Rutgers University
* US Department of Agriculture National Center for Agricultural Research
* Johns Hopkins University Medical School
* University of Rome
* Royal College of Nursing History of Nursing Forum
* Hunterian Museum at Royal College of Surgeons
* Royal Society 350th Anniversary event
•International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery
(ISMICS) annual conference
• National Army Museum
* Hellenic Medical Society and Eteria Ellinon Epistimon
* Royal Pharmaceutical Society
* British Society for History of Pharmacy
* School of Pharmacy (University of London)
* University of Brighton and Sussex Medical School
* National Tartan Day Washington DC
* Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique
• History of Plastics Society
• Society of General Microbiology,
* University of Liverpool
* Ehrlich II Conference Nuremberg
* Sankey Clinico-Pathological Society

4. After dinner
speaking

7. Andrew Moyer Lecturer, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Peoria, Illinois
The first historian to deliver this scientific lecture. 2001

8. Kevin Brown unveiling memorial at Fleming’s birthplace, Lochfield Farm,
Darvel, 2009

9. Unveiling of memorial at Fleming’s birthplace, Lochfield Farm, Darvel, 2009

12. To arrange a lecture or discuss a
tailor-made one
either telephone Kevin
Brown on 020 331 26528 /
0778 990 5748;
or email
Kevin.Brown@imperial.nhs.uk
penicillin.man@gmail.com
A selection of popular lecture titles follows

13. ‘Would you ever have thought such a thing
possible?’: Alexander Fleming and the FRS
Kevin Brown
http://royalsociety.org/rscience/ (click on Episode 13, May 2010, Giants
of Science. )
http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/events/audio-video-and-transcripts
(click on Fleming Museum logo to hear talk)

14. The Mould that
Changed the
World: Alexander
Fleming and
Penicillin
Kevin Brown

15. A Great Scot:
Alexander
Fleming and
Scotland
Kevin Brown

16. Alexander
Fleming,
Penicillin and
Greece
Kevin Brown

17. Aspects of
Hospital and
Nursing
History
Kevin Brown

18. The Apprentice Barber-Surgeon to FRCS:
Why is a Surgeon a Mr and not a Dr?
Kevin Brown

19. Plague
Pestilence
Panic
Kevin Brown

20. The
Fight
Against
Infection
Kevin Brown

21. A Night With
Venus, A
Lifetime of
Mercury
Kevin Brown

22. ‘DUrable,
REliant,
EXcellent’
Kevin Brown

23. Nursing Bad
Blood: Nurse
Eunice Rivers
and the Tuskegee
Experiment
Kevin Brown

24. More than "Geduld, Geschick, Geld
und Gluck": Paul Ehrlich, Almroth
Wright and Alexander Fleming
Kevin Brown

25. The Doctor’s
Dilemma: A Play for
Today?
Kevin Brown
George Bernard
Shaw and his
inspiration, Sir
Almroth Wright

26. Dr Zammit and
the Maltese
Goats: the
Conquest of
Mediterranean
Fever
Kevin Brown

27. ‘All That Wheezes’:
Asthma through the
Ages
Kevin Brown

28. War and Medicine:
How to Stay Fighting
Fit in two World
Wars
Kevin Brown

29. ‘Virile Bodies
Brought to
Nothing More
than Slugs on
the Ground’:
the Fight
Against
Infection in
the Great
War’
Kevin Brown

30. Medicine in the Blitz
Kevin Brown

31. The National Health Service:
A Retrospective
Kevin Brown

32. Pioneer Surgeon
and Social
Reformer:
Joseph Toynbee
and his Legacy
Kevin Brown

33. 'The true teacher
of our age':
Giuseppe
Mazzini and his
London circle.
Kevin Brown

34. Italians into the
World: the Emigrant
Experience
Kevin Brown

35. The Health of
the Seaman:
Medicine at Sea
Kevin Brown

36. ‘It is Easier for an Officer to Keep Men
Healthy than for a Physician to Cure them’:
Medicine at Sea in the Age of Nelson
Kevin Brown

37. Doctors at Sea: Health and Fitness on
Liners on Ocean Voyages
Kevin Brown

38. Unintended Consequences
What Connects the
Bacteriologist
Robert Koch,
Marshal Tito’s
Holiday Resort &
James Bond’s
Italian Tailor
Licensed to Kill?
Kevin Brown

39. Medical and Nursing
Biographies: A
Biographer’s view
Kevin Brown

40. Kevin Brown
It Shouldn’t Happen
to an Archivist:
Tales from the Front
Line

41. “If It’s Old and Dusty,
It Belongs in the
Archives”
Kevin Brown

42. To arrange a lecture or discuss a
tailor-made one
either telephone Kevin Brown on
020 331 26528 / 0778 990 5748;
or email
Kevin.Brown@imperial.nhs.uk
penicillin.man@gmail.com

43. ISBN ISBN ISBN ISBN
0750931523 0750931531 0750940417 978075094549
Books by
Kevin Brown
ISBN
1848320639

44. LATEST
Out Now
ISBN1848320639 Seaforth Publishing
US Edition published by US Naval
Institute Press, ISBN 159114809X