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Dr Lauren Padgett
@drlaurenpadgett.bsky.social
Assistant Curator of Collections @ Bradford District Museums and Galleries ⚙🏺🖼 🏛 | PhD 🎓 | Historian 📜 | Proud Bradfordian 💪🐗 | Interested in local heritage; bygone times; people from the past; & dusty old things | 📌 🗺 Bradford, Yorkshire | Views my own.
After an eventful and stressful week, nice to have the day off work to go christmas shopping at Halifax's Piece Hall and their Christmas Market, followed by food and drink at local restaurant. Their Christmas Market is great with different food, drink and product stalls. 🛍☕️🍷🍽
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
26) After work with colleagues, I went to @bradford2025.co.uk Loading Bay to see 'Nisbet Road Tailor Shop' exhibition featuring clothing & photos on loan from @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social. Caught 'Sonic Swirl and Silence' sensory experience too. Followed by food and drink at Darley St. Market. 🧵🪡
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This week I read Tracy Borman's 'The King's Witch', a historical novel about the #Stuart royal court and, fittingly for this week, the Gunpowder Plot. I hadn't realised it was part of a series so I've requested the next one. Book borrowed from Bradford Libraries. 📚 👑 #SkyBook #BookSky
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I know I'm biased but this is a great exhibition showcasing #Japanese objects from ukiyo-e, to arms and armoury, to #netsuke. On display until March at Cliffe Castle Museum #Keighley #Bradford @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social.

#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe #WoodBlockPrints

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November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I've finished reading my Halloween week read. I decided to go with a classic and re-read Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'. I can't help but feel pity for the tormented Monster and less so for arrogant Frankenstein. 🎃📚 #BookSky #SkyBook
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
25) I've been off work to spend time with little people. Yesterday I took one to #Bradford Industrial Museum for the Halloween trail. Today, we took two to Bolling Hall for the Halloween event day. I know I'm biased but @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social run great free family events all year round. 🎃💀🪄
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It's been great having 'Woven Through Time' exhibition about Bradford's textile industry at #Bradford Industrial Museum @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social this year, featuring historical costume & photos by Ian Beesley. Last few weeks to see it - catch it while you can. bradfordmuseums.org/event/woven-...
October 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This week I read 'Actually I'm A Murderer' by Terry Deary, clever and witty murder mystery set in Sunderland in the 1970s. Book borrowed from Bradford Libraries. 📚 #BookSky #SkyBook
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
24) For our work team away day, my colleagues & I explored what's on our doorstep in #Bradford, visiting @mediamuseum.bsky.social to see their fab new galleries & visiting @impressions-gallery.com to see their current exhibition 'Make Yourself at Home'. Plus lunch at Darley St. Market. 🏛 📺 📻 📸
October 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
23) This evening I had pre-show drinks in Sunbridgewells tunnels, #Bradford, before watching the theatre show #Uncanny Fear of the Dark @dannyrobins.bsky.social at Bradford Alhambra. Great staging and paranormal cases. 😱🛸👻
October 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This fortnight I have read two historical fiction books. Michael Crummey's 'The Adversary' set in 19th century Newfoundland and 'Cordelia' by Winston Graham - this should be dramatised, it has everything from a mysterious 1st wife, unhappy marriages, secret lovers and séances. 📚 #BookSky #SkyBook
October 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I decided to treat myself so I booked 2 days off work & booked myself into Wood Hall Spa and Hotel, Wetherby, for an overnight solo spa break. Tied in a visit to Harewood House to see 'Austen and Turner' exhibition. So glad I did it, relaxed & refreshed but don't want to return to work. #SelfCare 💆‍♀️🧖‍♀️
October 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
There's lots of ways to interpret place-meanings and origins. Ivegate could mean steep, or even refer to ivy. This is where one interpretation refers to St. Ives.
October 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This morning I went for walk around Low Moor and Wyke, #Bradford, which included a part of the Spen Valley Greenway. Very lucky to have some nice walking routes and green spaces in my local area. 🥾🍂
September 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Over the last few months, and inbetween other books, I've read 'The Redemption of Althalus' by David and Leigh Eddings. I don't often read fantasy books but enjoyed dipping in and out of this longer read. #BookSky #SkyBook #FantasyBook
September 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This weekend I read 'The Lost Passenger' by Frances Quinn, an endearing historical fiction novel about a woman who tries to turn a tragedy into an opportunity for a better life. Book borrowed from Bradford Libraries. #BookSky #SkyBook #BookRecommendation
September 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
22) This evening I attended the launch of the exhibition 'Our Turn: Practice Bradford' at Loading Bay @bradford2025.co.uk. Part of the new visual arts festival, 'Our Turn', for #Bradford. Loved Saba Siddiqui's installation. 🫖☕️

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September 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
At Bolling Hall Museum, #Bradford, @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social today we celebrated its 110 year anniversary of being a museum with new displays, story-telling sessions, astronomy themed talks and play, a speech reenactment and historical music. 🏰🎉
September 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This morning I went for a hour walk around Low Moor, #Bradford, including through Raw Nook Reserve Nature. Very lucky to have this on my doorstep. 🌳🐦🥾
September 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This week I read 'Human Remains' by Jo Callaghan, the third in the Kat and Lock detective series. Another gripping page-turner. Cannot wait for book 4. #BookSky #SkyBook #BookRecommendation #CrimeFiction
September 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I was planning on saving it as my Halloween read but this weekend I read 'Whistle' by Linwood Barclay. I couldn't put it down - really sinister and creepy 😱. (Wouldn't recommend to train modellers though). 📚 🛤 🚂 #SkyBook #BookSky #HorrorBook #BookRecommendation
September 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Today I took the day off work to spend time with 6yr old niece & 6wk old nephew. We went to Darlington's
Theatre Hullabaloo, a charity theatre for kids, where we played in a pirate themed and fairytale forest themed playrooms. Lovely way to round off the summer holidays. www.theatrehullabaloo.org.uk
September 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
21) When your birthday coincides with the annual North Parade Street Party and Darley St. Market's inaugural Great Northern Day celebration, it would be rude not to attend. Music and atmosphere at North Parade was nice and introduced some family members to Darley St. Market who hadn't been yet. 🎵🍻
August 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I was working at Bolling Hall Museum #Bradford yesterday and today. I had my lunches outside. The museum grounds looked lovely in the sunshine, maintained by the fab volunteer gardeners. 🏰🌳☀️
August 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This weekend, I read 'Bright I Burn' by Molly Aitken. Set in Medieval Ireland and inspired by true events, it follows the life of a woman fighting against patriarchy and for power. #SkyBook #BookSky #BookRecommendation
August 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM