Category: History

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WWI – Bowling Park Barracks

Liz McIvor, our Curator for Social History and Technology has written this timely post for us (given that Remembrance day takes place this month) about the

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#Askacurator 2015

For the last few years Bradford Museums and Galleries have participated in the international #Askacurator day on twitter –  a rapidly growing event that encourages conversations

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Sneaky Peeks

You may have come across references to Sneaky Peeks on our other social media accounts, or perhaps you’ve picked up a leaflet about it and

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Museum Detective Work

Working in museums can be a bit like becoming a detective.  We do research to find out what’s happened to a particular building or objects or figuring out ‘what

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Here comes the Bride

Although I coordinate the blog posts here for Bradford Museums and Galleries, my ‘day job’  is as the Social History Curator, working with the social

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Ballads and Broadsides

This blog post by Liz McIvor, our Curator for Social History & Technology takes a look at the broadsheets and broadsides popular in the past

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Disabled History Month

UK Disability History Month is an annual event, run in November every year since 2010.   If you’d like to learn more about the nation-wide event,  their website can be found here

The theme for this year is War and impairment: The Social Consequence of Disablement, something that our Curator, Liz McIvor ,addresses as part of the Bradford’s War 1914-18 Exhibition, on display at Bradford Industrial Museum until the 19th November.

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Ghoulish Goings on

With ‘All Hallows Eve’ rapidly approaching, Liz McIvor our Curator of Social History & Technology was inspired to write a suitably themed post, looking at

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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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