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Edward Appleyard

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Chief Executive of Thackray Museum of Medicine | Trustee @leedspiano | Chair Culture Consortium Leeds 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 Views my own ...

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Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We are today publishing a report with CultureRunner (Mairead O’Rourke) on the challenges and opportunities museums face when considering insurance options. Read the full report and response 👇 bit.ly/4x8CDaX 📸 Thackray Museum of Medicine (2026). Photo © Jenny Lewis.
An exhibition case at the Thackray Museum of Medicine. In the background on the far wall are a range of images of medical staff. In the cases are doctors and nurses outfits, high visibility vests, and medical equipment.
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 08/01/2026
Deadline approaching | We're looking for a global majority evaluator for our Anti-racist Museums Programme and a facilitator for two round-table workshops on wellbeing and ableism in the museum sector 👤 Programme evaluator: ow.ly/Ba4E50XTnil Workshop facilitator: ow.ly/QsMo50XTnim
Standing outdoors, a person draws on an easel
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust @leedsth.nhs.uk · 02/09/2025
We’re partnering with Thackray Museum of Medicine to shine a spotlight on organ donation and transplants on Thursday 25 September for #OrganDonationWeek! Every year, over 300 people receive life-changing transplants at Leeds Hospitals. Find out more and book here: www.facebook.com/events/66381...
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This time last week I was incredibly privileged to be on a pre-opening tour at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, with an opportunity to find out more about their community commitments and to celebrate work on our nearest neighbour’s RHS & NHS Wellbeing Garden @leedsth.nhs.uk.
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Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org · 06/05/2025
🎤 If the government wants national renewal, they should invest in the arts and culture 🎤 Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱 www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp... 🧶👇
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Delighted that @adamrutherford.bsky.social and @hpsleeds.bsky.social's Prof Gregory Radick will be joining us @thackraymuseum.bsky.social on Thursday evening for our newest Insights Late on the legacy of eugenics. Just a few tickets left now … 🎟️ thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/thackr...
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Thackray Insights Late: Unnatural Selection - Thackray Museum of Medicine
Taking place across our Autumn/Winter season, Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye­ opening topics and explore the...
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Today we @thackraymuseum.bsky.social posted a statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling on gender. We stand with our trans family and communities in allyship. 🏳️‍⚧️ thackraymuseum.co.uk/statement-fr...
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Statement from the Thackray Museum of Medicine following the UK Supreme Court gender ruling - Thackray Museum of Medicine
The Thackray Museum of Medicine is a safe space where the trans community has always been, and will always be, a welcomed part of our family – through our staff, volunteers, co-producers, the communit...
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Good morning #Salford you are look resplendent! Here @thelowry.com for @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Engaging Communities in Arts and Culture day. Looking forward to connecting with colleagues but also learning about, and being inspired by, the power of community.
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Brilliant to welcome @mayorofwy.bsky.social Tracy Brabin back to @thackraymuseum.bsky.social for the latest Mayor’s Question Time #WYMQT – looking forward to hearing more about our community’s concerns and what’s important for them with @westyorkshireca.bsky.social
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National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
National Portfolio museums are becoming more diverse, ACE report finds - Museums Association @museumsassociation.org www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
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National Portfolio museums are becoming more diverse, ACE report finds - Museums Association
New figures show rise in culture sector workers with protected characteristics, particularly at leadership level
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I’ve been on hold to HMRC for so long that I’ve started to transcribe the truly awful hold music that I will undoubtedly now have in my head for days 😒
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Kicking off another jam-packed @thackraymuseum.bsky.social late with Open Mic spoken word as part of “My Bloody Valentine”
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Jack Gann @jackgann.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
New exhibition opens today. It's about Blood. 🩸 Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Our partners at @universityofleeds.bsky.social: @hematopolitics.bsky.social. Art by Gemma Wood. Design by Émilie Chen.
An exhibition poster showing an organic, branching, dark crimson sculpture entangled in web of red threads. The title BLOOD is written in big, bold all capitals, with the words "Ties and Tensions" beneath.A museum display case seen through an illuminated web of red branches. It is framed by a network of red threads. The case contains Victorian transfusion apparatus and modern blood bags.A museum display case with a flame coloured sculpture of twisted branches reaching from the ground to engulf it. The case contains medicine bottles, documents and badges. An interpretation panel reads: "Infection".A series of historic blood donation posters on a gallery wall. One shows the silhouette of a soldier contained within a glass blood collection bottle. A real version of the bottle is spotlit in a case beneath the poster.
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is beyond insane!!! #trump made himself chair of the Kennedy Center! WTF?! On what planet is the supposed free world governed by a total autocrat? This is Stalin-esque! You’d think the arts would be a place of sanctuary but apparently not. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump says he will appoint himself chair of Kennedy Center
President plans to fire board members and chair David Rubenstein to bring about ‘golden age in arts and culture’
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Just over 24 hours left to apply … 👨🏻‍💻
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National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Culture engagement brings health and wellbeing benefits worth 8bn via @museumsassociation.org www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
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Cultural engagement brings health and wellbeing benefits worth £8bn - Museums Association
Research uses new methodology to show monetary value of cultural investment
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
📣 MarComms + VE Leadership Job Klaxon 🚨 HEAD OF MARKETING & AUDIENCES @thackraymuseum.bsky.social Looking for a new challenge in 2025? I need a brilliant person to join our team to lead our #marketing #communications and #visitorexperience teams for 10 months.
The Thackray team of staff stood on the staircase in its Grade II listed entrance with beautiful Burmantofts tiles.
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Neil John Griffiths @njgriff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Culture is in an emergency right now and today I’ve seen yet another well established arts org fall - Bristol Old Vic’s theatre school has run undergrad courses for 80 years (!!) but no more: oldvic.ac.uk/news/an-impo... @artsemergency.bsky.social 🚨
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An important announcement regarding future undergraduate training at the school - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
For almost 80 years, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School – one of the most well-regarded and successful drama schools in the UK – has prepared talented students from all walks of life to join the creative ...
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Tony Butler @tonybutler1.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Just maybe, a more fitting legacy for Her Majesty would be using that £46m to sustain an existing network of regional civic museums throughout the land. museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...
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Competition launched to design £46m Queen Elizabeth II memorial - Museums + Heritage
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Over the moon that @thackraymuseum.bsky.social made the front page of @yorkshirepost.bsky.social with our festive exhibition, 'The Night Before NHS Christmas', which opens tomorrow (30 Nov).
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Delighted to have been invited to briefly speak at tonight’s Community Engagement Tour Finale for Phoenix Dance. Three brilliant excerpts performed by this ever forward-thinking company, choreographed and directed by Marcus Jarrell Willis & Iolanda Portogallo 👏🏻 loved it! 🙌🏻 Thanks for having me!
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Must… resist… posting… pictures… of… my… dog… whilst… out… on… walks…. Oh I can’t help it he’s just too handsome and we live in #godsowncountry I promise not to fill this feed with dog spam and will try remain entirely professional! (I don’t promise at all 🤞🏻)
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Edward Appleyard @edwardappleyard.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Starting the seasonal set of celebrations at Harewood House in the most magical way in Mischief at the Mansion. Utterly brilliant 🤩 🎄 Studio McGuire and the Harewood team have totally outdone themselves 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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