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#AskACurator 2018

Heather Millard, Social History curator explains what she and the rest of the curatorial team were up to on the 12th of September. It’s that

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Extinction

I always look forward to posting the entries that our Natural Science Curator, Dr Gerard McGowan writes for our blog, as he highlight interesting aspects

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Calligraphy Explored

You may have noticed a new display case at Cartwright Hall recently.  Our Curator for International and Decorative Arts, Nilesh Mistry gave us a little

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Tinted photograph of Kitty as a young child. (on the reverse is a dedication from Kitty to her Uncle Henry)
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Butterfield Archive

We’re lucky enough to hold within our collections some of the correspondence between members of the Butterfield family, who were the owners of Cliffe Castle.

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Suffragette!

Our Community Engagement & Events intern Lucy, has written this weeks blog post, about a recent pop-up event she was involved with She writes: The

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News and Blogs from Bradford District Museums & Galleries

Callum, currently working on archiving and researching around the wonderful collection of British Wool clothing we have which was designed and created for the British Food and Farming Year, 1989
As 'Dreams and Songs to sing' at Cartwright Hall is being to draw to end (The final day of the exhibition is on the 8th September), we wanted to share a couple more of the stories from the community that are in the exhibition
Many of our visitors to Cliffe Castle earlier this year enjoyed the exhibition of artwork inspired by or depicting Samurai that we had on display in the Bracewell Smith Hall. Although the artworks are now safely back in storage, we wanted to be able to share them with you still, so Dale Keeton, our talented conservator, who made it all look spectacular and Ernest, our wonderful volunteer have written this blog to provide some additional insights.