Category: History

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Being Young in Bradford

Being Young in Bradford – Abby

Continuing with our series of blogs and extracts focusing on the experiences of ‘Being Young in Bradford’. This week’s memories are being shared by Abby.

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bradford waits sketch
Art

Bradford Christmas Waits

Bradford Christmas Waits As the festive period is in full swing, one of our Assistant Curators of Collections, Dr Lauren Padgett, has been looking into

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1872 the sale of a wife
Blog

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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recollections
Blog

The War Hospitals of Keighley

Our Assistant Curator, Kirsty agreed to write this blog, sharing an insight into some more of the stores currently being told in the Keighley’s War

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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.