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Dr. Norman Bethune: Life on the Front Line
From battlefield treatments to collapsing his own lung, the story of Dr Norman Bethune is one of medicine's brilliant tales of globetrotting bravery.
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The Thackray Mural – A Virtual Tour
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.
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Transgender Pioneers: Roberta Cowell, Michael Dillon and Harold Gillies
What's the link between Thackray's collection and the UK's first successful gender transition?
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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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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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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...
