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[Heritage Quay @Heritage_Quay]

Heritage Quay have been taking an unofficial break from X for the past couple of months, which we have decided to make more formal. This account will remain open but not active until further notice. Please follow us on our other channels for current content.

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Happy Welcome Week 2024 @HuddersfieldUni! 👋Whether you’re a returning student or new starter, the archive is a fantastic resource for #research and learning throughout your #studies🔎📜Visit our website for more information: https://t.co/NtnGuYopjB.

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Want to work for us? 📜🔍We have an exciting opportunity for an Archives Assistant to join the Heritage Quay team! For more information about the role visit https://t.co/7IhJmINFaL.

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The London Illustrated News (HUD/LB/2/9/2/6) often documented the latest fashion trends from Paris. Here's one illustration showing fashion trends for September 1847 for morning dress or evening promenade! For more information visit https://t.co/L7xRdLeHs5

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Ted Hughes: Making of a poet laureate is open Monday to Saturday until 21 September. ✒️

The exhibition showcases rare works and artefacts relating to the Mytholmroyd-born poet, Ted Hughes.

Find out more at https://t.co/GpyfNYgdJ8

[Heritage Quay @Heritage_Quay]

It's 61 years since the first @NetballWorldCup, held in August 1963 in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

The @EnglandNetball collection here at @HuddersfieldUni includes photos, programmes, menus and more from this history-making tournament.

Check out our catalogue via our link in bio

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Our research and enquiry service will be closed next week (19-23 August) while our whole team undertakes vital work to make our collections more accessible.

Watch this space for arranging, rehousing and cataloguing updates - and apologies for any inconvenience!

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Do you know your kitlings from your kivers and your knadekits from your knops?

For #YorkshireDay, check out this dialect book for Almondbury and Huddersfield, written in 1883 and presented to the Huddersfield Technical College 😍

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Check out this fab job opportunity with our neighbours @holocaustnorth:

https://t.co/OIokJ8kGm1

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Great to contribute a display to the
@HuddersfieldUni
#SouthAsianHeritageMonth celebrations!

We've used items from across our collections, including a c19th illuminated Qu'ran, and a score by Indian composer Naresh Sohal, whose archive recently came to Heritage Quay

[The Elmet Trust @ElmetTrustUK]

We are delighted to be hosting a special event: a private tour and curator’s talk about a new exhibition on the life and work of Ted Hughes, which is currently on show at Heritage Quay, Huddersfield.

https://t.co/Dt6pu2LUk4

Free event, book here :
https://t.co/O0O94PzQAw

[barb milne @barbmilne]

'Ted Hughes: The Making of a Poet Laureate' - Multifarious, carefully chosen, exhibits reflect the work, and life, of Ted Hughes - thank you @HuddersfieldUni English students @Heritage_Quay #Huddersfield ...well worth a visit #poetry

[hcmf// @hcmfuk]

Aged 11 to 18?

Want to develop your musical creativity and help write a piece for Riot Ensemble (@RiotEns) to perform at hcmf// 2024?

Sign up free to Compose It! taking place at @HuddersfieldUni across five sessions this autumn!

Learn more + register:
https://t.co/vS76csgHbO

[Heritage Quay @Heritage_Quay]

Today @HeritageQuay we have two books from 1881 and 1930 within the John Yudkin Library (YUD) that study the effects of caffeinated drinks such as tea, coffee and cocoa. One book (YUD/11) shows a microscopic illustration of the upper and under surfaces of a willow leaf!🍃☕

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Huge congratulations to our Archive Assistant Aimie, who was awarded the Chancellor's Prize at her masters graduation here at @HuddersfieldUni yesterday!!!

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Among the recent donations to our #TedHughes collections are objects from his time at school such as school reports, certificates, and uniform items.
You can see some of them on display in our current exhibition - open Monday to Saturday until 21 September!

@HuddersfieldUni

[Shape North @shapenortharts]

What a fabulous week with @DanielleSpargo & @sarahjbaumann at @Heritage_Quay for @BrassBandsEng with 180 pupils from HD1 - they loved being brass band detectives during their week of visits - They told us ✨🎶
BRASS BANDS are AMAZING! ✨🎶

[Huddersfield Hub @HuddsHub]

The man in charge of rugby league visited the sport’s extensive archive at the University of Huddersfield @Heritage_Quay
https://t.co/EiVAkhmxXP

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William Benson's 1868 'Principles of the Science of Colour' used a complex cube to explain #colour mixtures, illustrated by pages of coloured dots

The volume was in the Huddersfield Mechanics Institute Library, which from the 1860s ran a very popular class on dyes and dyeing