Category: Curatorial

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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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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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#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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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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News and Blogs from Bradford District Museums & Galleries

examining the long-standing links that the building, the family and the collections have to music,
In this blog, Lowri, our Curator of Collections invites us to take a closer look at two new ceramic pots, created specially for Bradford District Museums and Galleries by ceramicist Emilie Taylor
James Steward, our Museums & Galleries Manager, agreed to write our latest blog - looking back at 2024 and forward to 2025!
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.
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