Priestley in London

Joseph Priestley was more a visitor to London than a resident, though I he spent three troubled years in Hackney after the riots of 1791 had destroyed his house, laboratory and chapels in Birmingham. Nevertheless, his annual visits from 1766 to the Royal Society, to clubs and coffee houses, to Unitarian chapels and the homes of his many friends in London provided much of the stimulus for his scientific, religious and political thought. Although there are now only a few visible reminders of his visits to London, it is still possible to trace some of the places at which he stayed or preached, and it is the aim of this paper to identify these and to provide a brief picture of Priestley’s London life. There seems to have been only one previous publication related to this topic, a note which deals more with the London life of his associates than of Priestley himself. This account is prefaced by a short summary of his life; there are a number of biographies of Priestley (2)

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• The Priestley memorial volume

  Open Access•J Edmund White, Desmond George King-Hele•Notes and Records the Royal…•1994

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• Utility and Audience in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry

  Open Access•Jan Golinski, J V Golinski•The British Journal for the…•1988

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