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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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Butterfields & Cliffe Castle

In this blog, Heather Millard, our Social history curator, discusses some interesting objects linked to the Butterfield Family You’ll be used to seeing my name pop

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#Askacuratorday 2017

Heather Millard, our social history curator has written the latest recap of the curatorial team’s activities on ‘Ask a Curator Day’…. For the past few

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Cottingley Fairies

‘Do you believe in fairies?’  IN this blog, Heather Millard, our Social History curator describes the research she’s been doing into the Cottingley Fairies…. If

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News and Blogs from Bradford District Museums & Galleries

Our Assistant Curator of Collections, Emma Longmuir was tasked with leading on an updating of the 1970s focused 'Back to Back' house (part of the ever-popular run of houses illustrating changing lifestyles.
Our latest exhibition at Bradford Industrial Museum is gorgeous photography by Neil Horsley, looking at the repurposing and re-use of Mill Buildings. He kindly agreed to write this blog for about the project.
If you visited Bradford Industrial Museum earlier this year you might have spotted the display on Baird Television & Thorn Electricals that we had in our small cafe gallery there.
This latest blog from our volunteer Ian looks at the Butterfield Brothers as business men - which isn't a story we've told before.