Adam Farrer, author of Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, listens patiently and nods. I’m interviewing him about his ...

Looking Up, a loop of Pat Flynn’s CGI-animated shorts, ran to mark the opening of Wonderful Electric, the new digital ...

The Secret Public: LGBTQ Pop 1955–1985 is at John Rylands Research Institute and Library until November 15, 2025. For more ...

If Coronation Street is the go-to Manchester reference for TV, then legendary bassist Peter Hook (‘Hooky’) must be the musical equivalent. The music he created with Joy Division and New Order has ...

Fran Yeoman is head of journalism at Liverpool John Moores University where she loves putting the next generation of journalists in the North through their paces. Before returning to her native ...

Visitors to the nearby China gallery, also a new addition in the museum’s renovation, face similar challenges. Despite some ingenious display techniques, the choice of font size is still way too small ...

History is littered with sitcoms transferring unsuccessfully to the stage or film. One of the big problems is that the joke ratio plummets when something that works in a 25-minute format is stretched ...

Ben Nicholson, Birch Craig, Summer c.1930 (left), oil on canvas. Private Collection on loan to the Middlesbrough Collection at MIMA. Ben Nicholson, Cumberland House, 1920s (right), wood and paint.

Believe it or not but naked clog fighting was a mysterious and illegal sport that existed in Northern mining communities for hundreds of years. Now Gallery Oldham is staging an exhibition examining ...

MIF23’s opening night world premiere performed at HOME is an adaptation of a cult fantasy novel written in 1977 by Larry Mitchell and Ned Asia, in which history is reimagined through the lens of the ...

Outcast is a tale for our times. The events depicted in my book might have taken place a quarter of a century ago but this true story of a maverick Yorkshire businessman who fights back against the ...

When Yorkshire-born Kieran Hodgson joined the cast of BBC Scotland’s hit comedy series Two Doors Down, he decided to go “all in” and relocate with his partner to Glasgow. The move north of the border ...