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Meet the Matron: Heritage Open Day’s ‘Gruel and Graft’
Written by Laura Bailo, Visitor Experience Volunteer For months now, I have been a visitor experience volunteer at the Thackray...
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Thackray Museum of Medicine is Dr Ranj’s Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021
As the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021 awards approaches, celebrity doctor, educator and all-round brilliant personality Dr Ranj...
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Thackray’s Big Relaunch! – Through the medicine cabinet and what Annie found there
Written by Annie Hilditch, Communications Assistant Walking the halls of the newly refurbished Thackray museum felt contradictory, the place had...
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Edible Leeds – Guest Blog
Written by Louise Birch, Senior Librarian at Leeds Libraries As the summer recedes and changing leaves signify autumns approach it...
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Leeds Union Workhouse: Inmate in Focus – Mary Peddlestone
The More Than Oliver Twist project (2019-2021) was a nationwide research project lead by the Subject Specialist Network, The Workhouse...
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The evolution of the condom
Written by Joseph, volunteer at Thackray Museum of Medicine Condom – A thin rubber sheath worn on a man’s penis...
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THACKRAY MUSEUM OF MEDICINE SHORTLISTED FOR £100,000 ART FUND MUSEUM OF THE YEAR 2021
Thackray Museum of Medicine has been selected as one of the five finalists for Art Fund Museum of the...
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What saved Christian Erikson?
Nobody expected during the opening days of the Euros that a professional footballer, who by most people’s standards, is literally...
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Designer Harriet Whitehead on creating Thackray’s new galleries
In order to build our new galleries, we had some help from the guys over at CORE who are experts...
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Alice in Wonderland as Objects in Our Collection
The Lewis Carroll book ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ (1865) and its sequel ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ (1871) have endured...
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The Community That Cared
Written by Ross Horsley, Volunteer Coordinator The number of people who are making themselves ill worrying about AIDS is far...
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Leeds Union Workhouse: Inmate in Focus – William Barlow
The More Than Oliver Twist project (2019-2021) was a nationwide research project lead by the Subject Specialist Network, The Workhouse...
