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  • Can Robots Care?

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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...

  • 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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    Nobody expected during the opening days of the Euros that a professional footballer, who by most people’s standards, is literally...

  • 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...

  • The Community That Cared

    Written by Ross Horsley, Volunteer Coordinator The number of people who are making themselves ill worrying about AIDS is far...