Category: Collections

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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vaccing underneath chair
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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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St Blaise Postcard
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Bradford and St Blaise

This rather fascinating blog, written by our Assistant Curator, Lauren,  explores why Saint Blaise, an Armenian doctor and bishop from the 4th century, was celebrated

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Scrap book
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Christmas Cards

Kirsty, our Assistant Curator (Area North) offered to write an appropriately festive blog for our last entry in 2018.  She writes: From the end of October

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News and Blogs from Bradford District Museums & Galleries

Here in Bradford, we have some significant Morris connections to explore.
For Women's History Month a brief overview of some of the women in the Butterfield Family.
Dr Lauren Padgett, shines a light on one of the most superstitious objects in our collection..
what is wonderful about the collections that we look after is the sheer range and variety of what we hold and the stories that we can tell with them.
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