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Stay Curious, Keep Collecting: The Legacy of Paul Thackray (1939-2023)
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?
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Cataloguing the Thackray Museum of Medicine Archive: Part Four
Our Project Archivist Robert Curphey is back with his latest update!
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Poisons and Cures: Strychnine and the Murder of John Cook
We have quite the range of drugs, drug bottles and poisons in our collection. Today we're going to be talking about strychnine.
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A Jewish Hospital for Leeds
Credit: Leeds Teaching Hospitals We are working with the Yorkshire Jewish Medical Health Professionals Archive to share the stories of...
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Cataloguing the Thackray Museum of Medicine Archive
Robert Curphey is the first qualified archivist to be appointed at Thackray Museum of Medicine. His role is to catalogue...
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Marvellous Medical Birthday Party to celebrate Silver anniversary
On Saturday, June 25th, Thackray Museum of Medicine kicked off its Summer of Celebration programme with a huge party. With...
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A warm welcome for the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
We were pleased to have welcomed the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, The Rt Hon Nadine...
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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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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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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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Treating Madness: Historical Perceptions of Mental Health
Explore the history of mental health in more detail at our next INSIGHTS lecture on Saturday 9th January. Book your...
