One of our wonderful volunteers, Ian, has been busy reading and transcribing elements of the Butterfield archive – most recently he’s been piecing together some of the stories that the receipts and other documents can tell us. Here’s a timely one for the festive period…
I must apologise to our visitors at Cliffe Castle for the hammering and banging of late but rest assured, it isn’t anything paranormal and just me using a nail gun for the first time!
During their visit to Bradford Industrial Museum, three generations from the same family discovered photographs of their war hero ancestor from the Belle Vue Studio.
Bradford District Museums and Galleries staff were both intrigued and delighted when Timothy Benoy, Honorary Secretary of the de Brécy Trust, contacted Cartwright Hall Art Gallery generously offering the de Brécy Tondo as a loan.
We are delighted that Chris, our Visitor Services Assistant at Bradford Industrial Museum, has written a blog post about ‘Madge’ – one of our marvellous machines!
Dr Lauren Padgett, one of our Assistant Curators, shares how a recent enquiry let us take a closer look at a 251-year-old recipe book by a Bradford gentlewoman in our collection, giving us a taste of 18th-century food history.
In this blog, in response to collections at Bradford Museums, Deborah shares the inspiration for her own beautiful illustrations.
As part of ongoing research into the life of the artist Samuel Palmer, Dr David Mullin recently contacted Bradford District Museums and Galleries (BDMG) about a painting in their collection.
On 2nd March it’s World Book Day! To celebrate, we thought we’d highlight this rather special object in our collections: the Bolling Household Book.
Did you know that rocks make musical sounds and can be made into instruments? A rare set of heritage musical stones, known as a ‘lithophone’,
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