
Shifting Perspectives at Leeds Art Gallery
Collections, Colonial Histories, Featured, Fine ArtFind out what visitors have to say about the Shifting Perspectives exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery.

Rooted in History: Zea Mays
Collections, Colonial Histories, Featured, Natural ScienceCorn is more than just a food. Discover its many uses and fascinating history, explored through the herbarium specimens in the Leeds collection.

The Tiger Who Came to Leeds
Collections, Colonial Histories, Featured, Natural ScienceThe tiger on display at Leeds City Museum is one of our most well-known and popular objects. Curator Clare explores its troublesome origins, and how it came to be in our collection.

Decolonising the Curriculum
Colonial Histories, LearningOur learning team work closely with schools to shape, change and develop the curriculum, so that the pupils in our city are told whole and diverse stories at primary school.

Re-framing our Dress and Textile Collection: Everyday cotton
Collections, Colonial Histories, Dress & Textiles, FeaturedVanessa Jones explains how intrinsic slavery was in the production of cotton goods in the final post in our Re-framing the Dress and Textile Collection series.

Re-framing our Dress and Textile Collection: A toile
Collections, Colonial Histories, Dress & Textiles, FeaturedIn the second blog post in our Re-framing the Collection series, Vanessa Jones explains how this historic textile shows the exploitation of African slaves and Native Americans in the aftermath of the American Revolution.