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Most of our exhibitions are virtual, which means they are freely available to all, indefinitely. We hope you enjoy them. In future, we will make more information about past physical exhibitions available online, meanwhile please contact Special Collections staff if you are interested as we can send you exhibition catalogues. All Special Collections exhibitions are curated by Alison Cullingford with assistance from John Brooker unless otherwise noted.
2011-2013. Inspired by the recent British Museum/BBC series, in this online exhibit you can meet 100 amazing objects with a story to tell, the very finest of Special Collections at Bradford. A new object is added every week and you can nominate your favourite.
April 2010-ongoing. Online gallery, on flickr. It showcases 36 of the most colourful, important and meaningful images unearthed by the PaxCat Project.
March 2010-ongoing. Online exhibit about an extraordinary woman’s response to the deep past and nature, as an archaeologist and poet.
June-October 2010 (with ongoing additions). Online exhibit: reflections on J.B. Priestley's 1940 Postscript broadcasts, as they happened.
28 September-31 October 2010. Display at Ilkley Manor House Museum, part of the Words, Land and Landscape strand of the Ilkley Literature Festival. Highlights Jacquetta's masterpiece, A Land, which fuses geology and poetry, and presents her as film-maker, poet, archaeologist and fashionista.
March 2009. Gallery II, University of Bradford. Over 100 sensitive, quirky pencil sketches of 1930s activists, writers, and personalities, by Peggy Smith, a life-long peace campaigner.
November 2006. Gallery II, University of Bradford. The achievements of “Red Ted” Edwards, the University of Bradford’s first vice-chancellor. Featuring many items from the University Archive and artworks from the University’s collections. Curated by Alison Cullingford and Alison Darnbrough.
October 2006. Ilkley Manor House Museum. Overview of J.B’s life in photographs and objects, to accompany season of Priestley events in the Ilkley Literary Festival.
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