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Showing posts with label adults. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adults. Show all posts
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Bracing Air, Abundant Amusements: The Travel Posters of Charles Pears

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Blog post from 2021. This exhibition has now closed, however there are lots of lovely photos and information about Charles Pears in this ...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Rachel List: We're All In This Together

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At the end of 2020, we were privileged to install a new exhibition at Pontefract Museum, the first ever solo show by local lockdown artis...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Black History Month: Charles Waterton and slavery

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Charles Waterton, the pioneering naturalist, explorer and conservationist of Walton Hall near Wakefield, also spent seven years as a mana...
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Monday, October 26, 2020

Black History Month: Sugar nippers not shackles

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For Black History Month 2020, Wakefield Museums & Castles are exploring four stories related to British slave ownership in the early ...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Black History Month: Eliza, Anne and Helen Edmonstone

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For Black History Month 2020, Wakefield Museums & Castles are exploring four stories related to British slave ownership in the early...
Friday, October 9, 2020

Black History Month: John Edmonstone

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For Black History Month 2020 , Wakefield Museums & Castles are exploring four stories related to British slave ownership in the early...
Thursday, September 10, 2020

Heritage Open Days: St Thomas of Pontefract

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Did you know? Pontefract was the site of reputed miracles in the 14th century.   This is just one of the fascinating stories featured in ...
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Heritage Open Days: Behind the scenes at the museum store

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The Wakefield Museums & Castles collection contains more than 111,000 objects that tell the story of our district from the distant past ...