The Alchemist in the Library:
A Clare Mystery

In this talk, Tim Chesters will share one of the newly-discovered secrets of the Fellows' Library, and through it tell the story of one of Clare’s most colourful Fellows.

Piecing together some extraordinarily densely annotated books from the collection, the history of chemical experimentation, Tudor medicine, letters from the College archive, the College silver, a memorial sculpture, and an East London pub, the talk will show how Clare may hold the key to one of the most intriguing mysteries in the history of English alchemy.