Episode 52: Laura Beare - Marketing & Galleries Assistant Manager at Leeds University Library

Laura Beare was a great person to chat with about the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery and the Treasures of the Brotherton Library.

Laura tells me about her love of museums and galleries beginning in childhood, how she and her team have been expanding their digital content, some of their fabulous collections and works of art and the Leeds University Library Tik Tok account (it's great fun and very interesting - check it out).

Listen out for the story of the Cottingley Fairies too - fascinating!

The featured track this episode is "Kaalay Rang" by friends of the show Leeds band, Kinaara. The song is a "Punjabi folk song - A woman has received a gift from her beloved, a black paranda (a hair extending ornament which is plaited into the hair), she dances and celebrates but their love is hidden from society" and it is cracking! There are links below to their Band Camp page if you feel like buying a copy for yourself.

https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1900/galleries

https://www.tiktok.com/@lulgalleries?lang=en

https://twitter.com/lulgalleries?lang=en

https://www.facebook.com/LULGalleries/

https://www.instagram.com/lulgalleries/?hl=en

https://kinaaraofficial.bandcamp.com/

http://www.kinaara.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/kinaaraofficial

https://www.instagram.com/kinaaraofficial/

https://twitter.com/kinaaraofficial