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Poppy Wingate: Temple Newsam’s Golfing Pioneer

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Poppy Wingate was England’s first professional woman golfer, and she began her career right here at Temple Newsam.

The Greener Museum: A Case Study For Sustainably Redisplaying A Museum Gallery

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Curator Clare Brown explains how we tried to make the Life On Earth gallery as planet-friendly as possible.
A black and white photograph of tall buildings in Victorian Leeds

Football Works

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Curator Lucy Moore examines one leaflet from our social history collection and reveals a little known corner of Leeds’ sporting past.
A case in the Life on Earth gallery with taxidermy animals including a jaguar and a peccary.

The Greener Museum: A Case Study for Environmental Messaging in Museums

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Curator Clare Brown talks through new approaches to climate change messaging in the revamped Life On Earth Gallery.
Fragments of 3 Roman Sculptures

Roman Sculptural Fragments

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Find out about classical mythology and archaeology through our collection of Roman sculptural fragments, researched by Careers for All placement Sarah.
A black and white photograph of a man and a woman looking at each other and wearing eveningwear

Deciphering a 1960s Dress from a Photograph

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Discover the dress styles of the 1960s in our latest blog, researched by placement student Mominah using a photograph in the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection.