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
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
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
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
Amongst the many objects the museum has inherited from the old History of Education Museum collections are over thirty galvanometers, instruments used for detecting and measuring electrical current. Galvanometers work on the principle, first discovered by the Danish physicist Hans … Continue reading
As followers of the blog will know, for the last few months Kiara and I have been researching the museum’s collection of magic lanterns and slides, with support and advice from Claire and Mark. The first stage of the project … Continue reading
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
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Making Diagnosis Easier What was the Allbutt Clinical Thermometer? By the nineteenth century, doctors recognised the importance of recording the temperatures of patients. They had begun to link extremes of temperature with specific illnesses. Despite this, the thermometer remained an … Continue reading
Just to let you know, we had some visitors from Dorling Kindersley publishing look at our collections at the beginning of the summer. They were very impressed by what they saw and have arranged to come back on 23rd and … Continue reading
As promised, here is our main event for this term. Please do volunteer, the idea is that it should work a bit like Hidden Histories in that everyone involved kind of specialises in their chosen object, with the end result … Continue reading
