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  • 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...

  • Cataloguing the Thackray Museum of Medicine Archive

    Posted 5 January 2023

    Robert Curphey is the first qualified archivist to be appointed at Thackray Museum of Medicine. His role is to catalogue...

  • Marvellous Medical Birthday Party to celebrate Silver anniversary

    Posted 13 July 2022

    On Saturday, June 25th, Thackray Museum of Medicine kicked off its Summer of Celebration programme with a huge party. With...

  • A warm welcome for the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    Posted 18 March 2022

    We were pleased to have welcomed the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, The Rt Hon Nadine...

  • Leeds Union Workhouse: Inmate in Focus – Mary Peddlestone

    Posted 6 August 2021

    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

    Posted 30 July 2021

    Written by Joseph, volunteer at Thackray Museum of Medicine Condom – A thin rubber sheath worn on a man’s penis...

  • What saved Christian Eriksen?

    Posted 16 June 2021

    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

    Posted 4 March 2021

    The Lewis Carroll book ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ (1865) and its sequel ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ (1871) have endured...

  • Treating Madness: Historical Perceptions of Mental Health

    Posted 7 January 2021

    Explore the history of mental health in more detail at our next INSIGHTS lecture on Saturday 9th January. Book your...

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