Now the winner has been announced, make sure you catch the Turner Prize 2025 exhibition while you can at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, #Bradford, @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social 🏛🎨 'Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win #TurnerPrize' www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize

Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’

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I had fun today working at #Bradford Industrial Museum's Victorian Christmas Market @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social. I was in the 1875/Victorian back-to-back house letting visitors have a closer look inside. Market continues tomorrow (Sunday) 10am-4pm. 🎄🎩🏭 bradfordmuseums.org/event/bradfo...

Bradford District Museums & Galleries - Bradford Industrial Museum: Victorian Christmas Market 2025

Our annual Xmas Market with 70+ stalls inside and outside.

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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. 🛍☕️🍷🍽

In the early hours, my car was stolen. Praying its recovered or I'll be £1000s out of pocket. Angry at the sh!ts who did it but faith in humanity restored with neighbours supporting me, & kind stranger who found & returned some of my things, then later came back with a card and gift to cheer me up.

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

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 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've finished Halloween week listening to a radio version of the supernatural play 'The Grey Ones' by #Bradford playwright JB Priestley. I'd not heard of it before. It's about the belief that a group of malevolent 'grey ones' work together to manipulate the world. 🎭 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Haunted - The Grey Ones, by JB Priestley - BBC Sounds

A patient fears evil is at work in the shape of a sinister conspiracy.

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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

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-...

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

I'm trying to research a local branch of the Old Age Pensions Association in #Bradford 1950s. Struggling to find anything. Can #history #historians #hivemind recommend any research into, or researchers of, the OAP Association? Thanks in advance. @workingclasshistory.com @sogorg.bsky.social

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

This morning I had my flu jab. Last year I wasn't quick enough & got the flu which became a prolonged severe chest infection. Resulted in 3 weeks off work on 12 tablets a day, months of fatigue & laboured breathing, & a diagnosis of asthma due to lung damage. I recommend getting 1 if you can. 💉🤧

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 💆‍♀️🧖‍♀️

Today I logged on for Collections Trust conference #CTConf2025 for panels on #museum documentation & disposals - the often unseen & undervalued core museum work. I always come away from Collections Trust sessions feeling inspired & uplifted, ready to roll up my sleeves and crack on. 🏛📝👩‍💻🧹💪 #Curator

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. 🥾🍂

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

Review for the Turner Prize 2025 exhibition at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, #Bradford, @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social 👇. I had a sneaky peek on Friday when onsite and I was awestruck. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Turner prize 2025 review – puzzling banners, tinkling bells, burning landscapes and bum-like sculptures

There are calls for peace, intimations of violence, Korean folklore and spiralling vortices: everyone has a spiel but one artist stands out

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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

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. 🏰🎉

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. 🌳🐦🥾

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

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

Huge fire and explosions heard in Bradford around Bierley/Rooley Lane/Euroway. Apparently a lorry fire at industrial estate. I hope everyone is OK as it looks really bad. I can see the billowing smoke from Low Moor.

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

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. 🏰🌳☀️

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

A colleague and I decided we needed a treat for working hard so went out for lunch to the vegan Dandelion Cafe, Shipley. I ordered the mezze and it was lovely. Well worth a visit.

This evening I read 'Saltwater Mansions: The Woman Who Disappeared and Other Untold Stories' by David Whitehouse. While the mystery of the woman who vanished initially intrigues you, it's the other stories of other people's lives that engross you to the end. 📚 #BookSky #SkyBook

Step into the Ice Age this weekend! ❄️ While you’re exploring everything the #FestivalOfArchaeology Finale has to offer, don’t miss the Ice Age Art Now exhibition at Cliffe Castle, @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social 🦣 See some of the oldest known art in the UK, with pieces dating back over 24,000 years.