Category: History

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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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Blog: It’s a wheely exciting time

Visitors to the area can hardly fail to have noticed that the county seems to have gone bicycle-mad recently.  With the Tour De France commencing in Yorkshire for its Grand

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Blog: Mary Balmes Desk

We’d like to share the story with you of one of the objects that will soon be on display as part of a forthcoming exhibition

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News and Blogs from Bradford District Museums & Galleries

My name is Maleehah Hussain. I have been involved in the Portrait of Mai Project since April 2025
British Wool is a non-profit farmer run organisation that collects, grades, promotes and sells wool produced in the UK.
A blog written about an interesting local (and not-so-local) story about three Victorian photographs taken in England of people of African heritage.
Exploring the next exhibition at Cliffe Castle Museum
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