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Should we edit human genomes? (Part 1)
Written by Sandy Starr, Deputy Director, Progress Educational Trust Genome editing is an increasingly powerful technology in fields including medicine...
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Can Robots Care?
Written by Dr Amelia De Falco, Associate Professor of Medical Humanities, Unversity of leeds Introducing Care Robots A care robot...
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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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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
Before Latex, there was sheep guts. We unwrap the intriguing history of the condom. Condom – A thin rubber sheath...
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Thackray shortlisted for world’s largest museum prize
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 Eriksen?
Nobody expected during the opening days of the Euros that a professional footballer, who by most people’s standards, is...
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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...
