For the past few weeks, Manchester’s streets have been filling up with posters advertising the Manchester International ...

And so the advert for Dinosaur World Live, served up by a social media algorithm, should have set my eye twitching. Nope. I ...

Manchester has long been the locus of world-shattering political meetings, from Marx and Engels writing the Communist ...

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

British Textile Biennial 2023It’s only young but the British Textile Biennial has woven its place into the fabric of mill towns across Lancashire. The theme of BTB23 is the Politics of Cloth, but ...

You can’t ask for a jacket potato in Scotland! Actor, writer and comedian Kieron Hodgson talks to Northern Soul's Drew Tosh.

Picture Gallery - Winnifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag RugsShe was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is ...

Ink Spill: Short Stories and Poems from Manchester's Emerging WritersThere are no limits on style, genre, level of completion or polish, no pre-requisites except the willingness to hear open and ...

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 ...

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, we salute you. The Worst Record Covers in the World may be the best exhibition ever. Thanks to Steve Goldman’s weird and wonderful record collection, which includes ...

Set in 1829, a new children’s book called Wrong Tracks centres on Edward Entwistle, a Lancashire lad from Tyldesley, Wigan, whose claim to fame is driving the famous Rocket steam engine on the railway ...