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More Holdens Untangled: a Guest Post by Maria O’Hara
Following on from Jen Fox’s post about working on 19th century letters, I am so pleased to bring you a slightly different perspective from graduate trainee, Maria O’Hara. I would like to … more →
Special Collections at the University of Bradford
Manors of Newton Abbot
wrote 3 days ago: View over central Newton Abbot, Devon, UK – taken from Wolborough Hill, July 2005. (Photo cred … more →
Cotswolds, Chipping Campden
wrote 2 months ago: We kept driving past Cirencester, through the Cotswolds. Chipping Campden was sort of bizarre. I cou … more →
50. "Yours with Increasing Affection": the Courtship Letters of Isaac Holden and Sarah Sugden
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wrote 2 months ago: For the 50th Object (half-way through!), a first glimpse of a family whose letters are a treasure ho … more →
Margaret Frazer, A Play of Lords
wrote 4 months ago: A Play of Lords by Margaret Frazer Series: Joliffe, 4 My rating: 6 of 5 stars Fourth in the Joliffe … more →
Woolly thinking: part 1
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wrote 6 months ago: Wool snood at French Connection containing 0% wool and 100% Acrylic. We’ve had some WOVEMBER f … more →
37. Labor Omnia Vincit: the 1882 Opening of Bradford Technical School, in silk
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wrote 6 months ago: This week’s Object is a silk panel produced to commemorate the opening on 23 June 1882 of the … more →
32. A Bradford Man on the Orient Express: Joseph Riley's "Notes of Journey from Bradford to Constantinople"
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wrote 8 months ago: First page of Joseph Riley's Notes This Object is a manuscript journal, with what *might* be th … more →
More Holdens Untangled: a Guest Post by Maria O'Hara
wrote 8 months ago: Following on from Jen Fox’s post about working on 19th century letters, I am so pleased to bri … more →
Some Holdens Untangled: a Guest Post by Jen Fox
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wrote 9 months ago: I am delighted to bring you this post by Jen Fox, one of our graduate trainees who has been working … more →
21. Death and the Woolsorter: Bradford doctors against anthrax
wrote 10 months ago: Bradford’s phenomenal growth and prosperity in the 19th century were founded on the wool indus … more →
Untangling the Holdens II
wrote 11 months ago: A very happy postscript to my post about Untangling the Holdens, our new mini-project to share the r … more →
Antique Alpacas Appraised
wrote 1 year ago: The BBC’s Antiques Roadshow recently paid a visit to Saltaire, one of the most attractive area … more →
Follow the Fleece
wrote 2 years ago: A new exhibit by artist Angela Wright at Artspace in Bradford Cathedral uses a giant hank of wool to … more →
Multrees Walk - a History Lesson ,aka multricehill ,aka Multrice Hill ,aka Mutter's Hill , aka Moultrays Hill , aka Moutray's Hill, aka Multrar, aka Multref Seafield ... Flemish , Flanders , Leuven/Louvain
wrote 2 years ago: http://amg1.net/scotland/medievallinks.html “Medieval links between Flanders and Scotland MEDI … more →
