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Meet the Matron: Heritage Open Day’s ‘Gruel and Graft’
Written by Laura Bailo, Visitor Experience Volunteer For months now, I have been a visitor experience volunteer at the Thackray...
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Edible Leeds – Guest Blog
Written by Louise Birch, Senior Librarian at Leeds Libraries As the summer recedes and changing leaves signify autumns approach it...
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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 Eriksen?
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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The Community That Cared
Written by Ross Horsley, Volunteer Coordinator The number of people who are making themselves ill worrying about AIDS is far...
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Leeds Union Workhouse: Inmate in Focus – William Barlow
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 Beauty of Our Hands
Written by Prof. Simon Kay To explore more about the functionality of the hand, and the implications of limb loss,...
