Richard Berry: from Melbourne to Bristol

The Guardian recently (28 May 2024) reviewed the book Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne – Volume 1: Truth. The article featured anatomist and eugenicist Richard Berry, who moved back to his native England in 1929 after working at Melbourne University and was director at Stoke Park Colony (an institution in Bristol for “mental defectives”) and then head of the Burden Mental Research Trust. I wrote a post about the Burden Neurological Institute and Richard Berry here. There is interesting article about Berry by Helen MacDonald in the winter 2017 edition of Overland magazine.