Category: History

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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recollections
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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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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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a selection of folklore books
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May Day

No, it’s not a plea for help, but rather the subject of this week’s blog. If you’re visiting Cliffe Castle this week (or, indeed youvisited

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cliffe castle 12 Square
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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

The Ice Age Art now exhibition has been an amazing process, working with the British Museum team and Bradford 2025 to bring national collections up to the district and link them to Bradford's own history & heritage.
Our Assistant Curator of Collections, Emma Longmuir, shares the journey of curating 'Woven through Time'
As we look forward to the opening of Ice Age Art Now at Cliffe Castle Museum, British Museum curator Jill Cook introduces the themes of the exhibition.
Fatima looks back on the change between when she started volunteering and now
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