For this month's Curator’s Corner, we will be exploring the fascinating history of fingerprinting. The introduction of fingerprinting as a means of identifying criminals was a revolution in forensics with Bradford playing a central role in its story.

On 21 August 1916, during the height of World War I, the Low Moor Chemical Company, renamed Low Moor Munitions Company, Factory No. 182, exploded catastrophically in Bradford.

In the early years of the 20th century, Bradford was a thriving industrial city. Its steep hills and cobbled streets were traversed by electric trams - symbols of modernity and civic progress. But on the final day of July in 1907, a tragic accident would cast a long shadow over the city’s transport history.