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Blog Category: History

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  • Thomas Harvey: The Remarkable Life of a Humble Leeds Chemist

    Posted 27 March 2025

    Sink your teeth into Jen Wright's latest article about the globetrotting tales of Thomas Harvey.

  • Dissection, the Anatomy Act, and the Workhouse – Part Two

    Posted 17 January 2025

    Jen Wright is back with Part Two of her deep dive into the history of dissection.

  • Dissection, the Anatomy Act, and the Workhouse – Part One

    Posted 6 December 2024

    From Ancient Greece to Victorian Leeds, Jen Wright dissects the history of dissection.

  • A Tale of Two Jameses

    Posted 4 September 2024

    The lives of two influential figures from Leeds’s health history will be illuminated in a new talk for 2024's Heritage Open Day at the Thackray Museum.

  • Cataloguing the Thackray Museum of Medicine Archive: Part Five

    Posted 28 August 2024

    Robert is back with another roundup of his findings in the Thackray archive...

  • Dr. Norman Bethune: Life on the Front Line

    Posted 24 April 2024

    From battlefield treatments to collapsing his own lung, the story of Dr Norman Bethune is one of medicine's brilliant tales of globetrotting bravery.

  • The Thackray Mural – A Virtual Tour

    Posted 26 March 2024

    This detailed painting charts the history of the Thackray Company as a centre of medical innovation, so join us as we take a closer look. 

  • Transgender Pioneers: Roberta Cowell, Michael Dillon and Harold Gillies

    Posted 15 March 2024

    What's the link between Thackray's collection and the UK's first successful gender transition?

  • Stay Curious, Keep Collecting: The Legacy of Paul Thackray (1939-2023)

    Posted 19 October 2023

    Our late founder Paul Thackray donated thousands of items to our 75,000+ collection of medical supplies. What can we learn from some of these objects?

  • Cataloguing the Thackray Museum of Medicine Archive: Part Four

    Posted 12 October 2023

    Our Project Archivist Robert Curphey is back with his latest update!

  • Strychnine and the murder of John Cook

    Posted 4 October 2023

    We have quite the range of drugs, drug bottles and poisons in our collection. Today we're going to be talking about strychnine.

  • A Jewish Hospital for Leeds

    Posted 5 February 2023

    Credit: Leeds Teaching Hospitals We are working with the Yorkshire Jewish Medical Health Professionals Archive to share the stories of...

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