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Hidden Histories 2013
A couple of years ago we, the museum group, collectively put together a case of objects designed purely to show of the diverse range of artefacts our university holds. Everyone chose an object, wrote a blog post, filmed a youtube … Continue reading
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Bragg Day
Saturday 23rd March 2013 was Bragg day at the University of Leeds. In preparation for this day of activities and lectures we brought together academics with an interest in X-ray crystallography from across the University – from history of science, our … Continue reading
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Visit from the ‘Leeds City College (over 60s) Local History Group’
On 8th February 2013, Rita Berry from Leeds City College brought her local history group to visit our museum. They were a very nice group, all interested and well informed, and tolerant of the enormous amount of walking required on … Continue reading
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New & improved: science without heroes
Exhibitions evolve. Our draft outline, posted a few weeks ago was what we thought we’d show, but then we tried it in the space and it needed a little more. A few additions, some corrections, the odd tweak here and … Continue reading
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Science without heroes
On Friday 18th January 2013, Leeds University will host the second in a three part series of workshops on ‘Public Science’ organised by the Science Museum and iPUP (Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past). As part of the … Continue reading
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Material Culture in Chemistry conference
On Saturday 8th December 2012 I went along to this conference held at the Science Museum in London and organised by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry in an attempt to find out a little about the … Continue reading
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Understanding the past
Just over a week ago, I attended the first of three events, organised by ipup (the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past in York), the Science Museum in London and us (ie the University of Leeds). This first … Continue reading
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Exhibitions coming up…
Just to give you an idea of what’s coming up, here’s a brief description of the displays and exhibitions we’re hoping to put together over the coming months along with a week by week breakdown of how we might manage … Continue reading
Our Collections and the Victorian Schoolroom
Over the summer we were contacted by Jane Zanzottera and Linda Stansbie from Artforms at Leeds City Council. Artforms is part of the council’s Children’s Services and works to bring art, music and culture to the city’s children. The part … Continue reading
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