We're happy to share: Amazing Blood Ties! written by Jieun Kim (PI of Hematopolitics) and illustrated by Leigh Bowser. This children’s book introduces kids aged 5–8 to the stories behind blood donation and how we’re all connected. Freely available at: hematopolitics.org/amazing-bloo...
First session of ESRC Festival of Social Sciences with Leigh Bowser around our children's book, Amazing Blood Ties! At @thackraymuseum.bsky.social all day long today with storytelling by Matthew Bellwood at 13:30-14:30! Come along to discover how we are all connected in blood!
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At the heart of the event is a one-hour live storytelling performance by Matthew Bellwood. Please spread the words to anyone who may be interested! festivalofsocialscience.com/events/amazi...
Our sessions will run twice in person: first at the Thackray Museum of Medicine on 28 October 2025 (10:30–15:30), and again at Moor Allerton Library on 1 November 2025 (10:30–15:30). Children can enjoy hands-on activities throughout the day, including crafting, colouring, quizzes, and games.
So excited to share this with communities at Leeds over this half-term break!
We're all ready, looking forward to seeing you at #BeCurious2025 at the Refectory of U of Leeds, today 10-4pm! We've got braiding, colouring, quizzes and many more!
17 May, 10am-4pm at U of Leeds! @hematopolitics.bsky.social @claireturner.bsky.social @lahri.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social
Here we come, #BeCurious2025! Really excited to showcase a picture book I've been working on with Leigh Bowser with lots of funny quizzes and crafting activities!
Please do consider coming along to this fantastic event we're hosting with Thackray Museum tomorrow!
This Friday, why not listen to @kingtekkers.bsky.social talking with @graemegooday.bsky.social about Physical Sciences on The Science of 1875 podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/5Dln...
If you're not sure what to do this Bank Holiday weekend, why not pop down to the Thackray Museum of Medicine and check out this exhibition, including art installations by Gemma Wood, that forms part of our colleague @jinikim.bsky.social Hematopolitics project.
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/blood/
'Connections: Part 1' is a striking display of fabric blood bags designed as part of a collaboration with The Blood Bag Project. @jinikim.bsky.social and Leigh Bowser travelled to Japan and Korea to host workshops where these blood bags were carefully crafted.
hematopolitics.org/connections-...
EXTENDED DEADLINE
We've extended the deadline on our call for papers to midday (BST), 2 May 2025.
Please share widely!
I'm delighted to share that I've been curating a digital exhibition, entitled '“It’s in our blood”: Identity, Blood Donation, and Transfusion', as part of my work with @hematopolitics.bsky.social. The first few pages are now live!
hematopolitics.org/digital-exhi...
I had a wonderful time at the launch of 'Blood: Ties & Tensions' last night! @hematopolitics.bsky.social have been working closely with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social to put together a brilliant display of objects, stories, and art pieces that bright to light the significance of our blood.
Three Hematopolitics researchers stood outside an art installation within the exhibition space.
Thank you so much to everyone who attended tonight’s exhibition launch! We had an amazing time networking with everyone involved in the production of ‘Blood: Ties and Tensions’. We can’t wait to see what you all think of it!
My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc
A photo of a single bottle in a museum display case. The case is entangled in a web of blood red threads framing the object within. It is a glass milk bottle-style receptacle with a rubber stopper and orange rubber tubing poking through it.
The first blood collection in 1930s Britain was stored in reused milk bottles. The milk bottle design remained standard until the NHS introduced blood bags in 1975.
The bottles were nicknamed "the Janet Vaughan" after the doctor who helped set up the first national blood bank.
And that’s not the only exhibition launch…
We’re very proud to share the pilot version of our digital exhibition, ‘“It’s in our blood: Identity, Blood Donation, and Transfusion’.
Please share widely!
hematopolitics.org/digital-exhi...
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It is all getting so real! Blood: Ties and Tensions exhibition is opening this Saturday! Thank you everyone at Thackray Museum of Medicine and the wonderful Hematopolitics team for making this happen! Special thanks to my colleagues and collaborators in Leeds, Japan and Korea for all the support!
I can finally share news of the exhibition I've been working on as part of my postdoc with @hematopolitics.bsky.social! 'Blood: Ties and Tensions' will run from Feb - June 2025 and explores the social and cultural meanings behind blood donation and transfusion.
thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/blood/