Do you have suffragette's in your family? Keep watching this space for more about Women Through Time

Ever wondered what it would be like to go to school in the Victorian period? Are you a local school teaching the period? Why not contact Tolson Museum about arranging a school visit and take part in your very own Victorian school day?

Have a passion for history? Why not drop in on the Huddersfield History Society lectures which take place at Huddersfield Library?

We are open today 11-4pm and if you fancy a trip down memory lane or perhaps are a new visitor and have never been before come to Tolson Museum and explore Huddersfield past, present and future!

Last minute CHRISTMAS SHOPPING at TOLSON! From Dinosaur gifts to Romans; local art to local books; chic homewares to Jewellery; traditional sweets to Tolson's very own Gingerbread Half Pigs - Tolson has unique 'stocking fillers' and gifts for everyone! Open Saturday 23- Sunday 24 December, 12noon-4pm.

Unfortunately the Tolson guided tours are cancelled today, but we will have more tours in the new year. Tolson Museum is open again at the weekend from 12 till 4.

Fancy some quality time with (or without!) the family this Christmas? Come along to visit, details of when we are open at http://bit.ly/Openatxmas

Amazing Christmas gifts at Huddersfield Art Gallery shop ...

Now selling at Tolson Museum is this lovely new local book ‘Picture Walking Historic Almondbury: Then and Now' by local author Vivien Uff, which tries to summarise Almondbury’s history in 104 images. A perfect Christmas gift! Almondbury dates from a prehistoric fort on a hill with fantastic views across beautiful countryside. It was on an ancient woollen trading route from London to the Yorkshire Dales bringing it travellers and traders on foot and horseback from earliest times. The author believes it’s important to keep history alive for our children and granchildren, e.g. for them to know that 100 shops were replaced by 15 and that the internet era may reduce that further as almost everything can be bought by touching a button! She hopes the photographs and personal anecdotes will bring memories alive for exiles living far away and perhaps for elderly residents who have always stayed here. Huddersfield Local Studies Library kindly lent some of their pre-1900 photos to blend in with those taken recently, creating some 'then' to match the 'now'. Costing £9.99 the new book is available at Tolson Museum which is open Sat-Sun 16/17 Dec and 23/24 Dec from 12noon-4pm.

Twelve days of Christmas begins.... On the first day of christmas my true love sent to me... the half pig and the bird room.... #12days #wintersong #christmascarol