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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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Curatorial Intern – Gemma

Our latest blog has been written by Gemma Bailey,  who is a our Curatorial Intern for Social History and Technology.  She writes: As a recent post-graduate

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Hockney Gallery Blog

This week’s blog has been written by Jill Iredale, our Curator of Fine Arts. It’s the first in a series focussing on the up-coming Hockney

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Trams

Our Curator of Technology, Liz McIvor agreed to write this week’s blog. She writes: What’s the difference between a tram and a trolleybus? Both forms

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News and Blogs from Bradford District Museums & Galleries

We're taking a look at contemporary artworks by women artists in the Bradford District Museums and Galleries collection.
We came across a fascinating set of travel diaries by Mrs Smith, a relative of the Butterfields - let us use her own words to tell the story
Learn more about the 2024 Cohort of Young Ambassadors
examining the long-standing links that the building, the family and the collections have to music,
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