Category: Curatorial

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Meet the Richardsons: Bierley Hall and Bierley Woods

Assistant Curator of Collections Dr Lauren Padgett tells us about how a family’s 18th century botanical gardens are now public woods in Bierley for Bradfordians

20 July 2020 3 Comments

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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

6 March 2020 No Comments

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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

18 February 2019 No Comments

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A ‘Standard’ Delivery: The Acquisition of a Hattersley Standard Loom

Those of you who also follow our Facebook and Twitter accounts might have noticed we got a little bit excited a couple of weeks ago

19 November 2018 1 Comment

#askacurator

#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

17 September 2018 1 Comment

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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

2 October 2017 No Comments

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Planes, trains and automobiles (or should it be autocues*)

Recently, Liz McIvor, our Social History and Technology Curator has been busy filming for the BBC – Railways: The Making of a Nation and has written a

3 October 2016 No Comments

News and Blogs from Bradford District Museums & Galleries

Bradford District Museum & Galleries

Heather Millard
September 2, 2024

The British Wool Collection Project – Blog 1

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

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Heather Millard
August 19, 2024

Dreams and Songs to Sing – More stories

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

Cliffe Castle Museum

Heather Millard
August 5, 2024

Art of the Samurai

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.

Bradford District Museum & Galleries

Heather Millard
July 15, 2024

New Acquisition: Shackleton’s Preparatory Sketch of The Polar Star

Due to generous funding from The Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and The Friends of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums, Bradford District Museums and Galleries has an exciting new acquisition in its collection – a preparatory sketch of The Polar Star by William Shackleton.