Category: History

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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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Blog: Cliffe Castle

Work at Cliffe Castle continues to progress and it’s great to see the building starting to change as new lights begin to go on in

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News and Blogs from Bradford District Museums & Galleries

Equity Partnership discuss their work with us on the new Pre-Raphaelite exhibition at Cartwright Hall
Did you know Cliffe Castle houses over 60,000 herbarium specimens?
Here in Bradford, we have some significant Morris connections to explore.