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Category Archives: history
Alternative lifestyles
I was bemused to see a brace of Children’s books in ASDA recently about a little cow called Cushy Butterfield. Indeed, one of them was entitled Cushy Butterfield (She’s a little cow) , cover to the right, image from Amazon. This … Continue reading
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Retrospective photojournalism
I’ve previously blogged about the legendary Leslie Overend, the man whose photographic collection spanned decades of Morley life. Leslie retired in 1983 and died six years later, bequeathing his vast (not too well sorted) collection to Stephen White. his journalist colleague … Continue reading
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The archive hour
This lunchtime, I took a wander into Bradford library, my first visit. That is because I had noticed an exhibit there in the flyer for Archive Awareness Month 17th – 29th November – Bradford Civic Playhouse Exhibition Bradford Central … Continue reading
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Archive awareness month
I went to Leeds Grand Theatre twice yesterday. Early afternoon, I visited to see an interesting exhibition celebrating 130 years of the Theatre It had been organised in collaboration with the West Yorkshire Archive Service. 17th – 22nd November – … Continue reading
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Seven hours in Belgium
Well, the Sky Broadband stopped working late on Friday night and it didn’t start again until the early hours of this morning, so it is a good job I went away for the weekend! We spent seven hours in … Continue reading
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