A Portrait of Rev. Joseph Priestley, Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher and Reformer Text: Malcolm Dick Image: Birmingham City Archives Born into a Yorkshire wool manufacturing family in 1733, Priestley was raised as a nonconformist and proved to be a gifted scholar. By the age of twenty he had le...

Address on letter from Joseph Priestley to Reverend R Robins, Daventry, 7 January 1781, Image from: Joseph Priestley Collection by Samuel Timmins, Birmingham City Archives.

Apparatus, Image from: Joseph Priestley Collection by Samuel Timmins, Birmingham City Archives.

Apparatus, Image from: Joseph Priestley Collection by Samuel Timmins, Birmingham City Archives.

Aris's Birmingham Gazette - Abolition of Slave Trade, ABOLITION of the SLAVE TRADE. Birmingham, Hotel, Nov. 17, 1790. AT a Meeting of the Committee, held here this Day, it appeared that the great Question respecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was likely to come before Parliament early in the ensuing Sessions; and that in Addition to the Ex...

Aris's Birmingham Gazette - Dr. Priestley's reply to Jacobin Club, The following is Dr. Priestley’s answer to the address of the committee of the revolution society. Tottenham, Aug. 22 “Dear Sir, I beg you would make my acknowledgements in the most respectful manner to the committee of the revolution society, for their very grateful address to me....

Aris's Birmingham Gazette - Letter from Dr. Priestley to Academy of Sciences, Paris, LETTER from DR. PRIESTLEY to M. Condorcet, perpetual Secretary to the Academy of Sciences at Paris. SIR, I am more than consoled for my losses, by learning that the Members of the Academy of Sciences have honoured me, by interesting themselves in what has befallen me; and particularly as I...

Aris's Birmingham Gazette - Letter from Jacobin Club, Paris to Dr. Priestley, The following address has been sent by the Jacobins Club, at Paris, to Dr. Priestley. “SIR, Many learned Societies have already offered you and will yet offer you, the tribute of their sensibility on the loss which science has suffered, by the attack made on your property, in its most p...

Aris's Birmingham Gazette - Letter to Aris's about Dr. Priestley and the Birmingham Riots, To the Inhabitants of the Town of Birmingham. Friends and Fellow Townsmen, IT is with extreme concern and reluctance that I offer a few remarks on the letter which has lately been addressed to us, in several London papers, under the signature of Dr. Priestley. He complains of the injuries s...

Aris's Birmingham Gazette - Letter to Aris's Gazette about Dr Priestley and the Birmingham Riots, To the Rev. Dr. PRIESTLEY. Quid minus utile fuit quam ulcus hoc tangere? REV. SIR, TO deplore the loss of you Apparatus, your Books, and Manuscripts was natural, and every Friend of Science condoles with you; to remind the deluded People that they were injuring their own Cause, was just an...

Aris's Birmingham Gazette - Request from Dr. Priestley for return of letters lost in riots, To the Printer of the Birmingham Gazette. SIR, I DO not now write to complain of my sufferings in general, but of one in particular, which may in some measure be alleviated. Private letters are a species of property peculiarly sacred. No person of honour will even look into a letter not d...

Chemical Philosophers of the Present Day: Dr Priestley, Image from: Joseph Priestley Collection by Samuel Timmins, Birmingham City Archives.