Category: Curatorial

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Blog: Casting Around the Stores

In this blog Dr Rebecca Wade, Collections Assistant (Cultural Recovery Fund), rediscovers the identities of an intriguing set of plaster casts in our collection taken

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1872 the sale of a wife
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Wife-selling in Victorian Bradford

Last year for International Women’s Day, our Assistant Collections Curator Lauren Padgett gave a popular and lively illustrated talk on wife-selling. This year, she has kindly

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Blog: Cleaning Cliffe Castle !

Our Collections officer, Pam Keeton kindly agreed to write this fascinating insight into the unseen work that happens in order to care properly for our

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News and Blogs from Bradford District Museums & Galleries

Khadijah Ali reflects on her journey from volunteering to being appointed as a Lead Museum Young Ambassador.
Our museums are continually evolving as new research, perspectives and community voice deepen our understanding of the past.
Being a part of the “Portrait of Us” Exhibition truly allowed me to tap into a part of myself I hadn't given the chance to grow...