The English love a posh eccentric. Romance novelist Barbara Cartland was as posh as they come and more eccentric than most.

Nevertheless, in lieu of The Odyssey, I visited a new Greek eatery in Salford to spend a couple of hours musing over a ...

“Make Egypt great again,” boomed the pharaoh from the stage of the Lyceum theatre. Parents in the packed audience of ...

In a more idiosyncratic sort of anniversary, it’s 24 years since the release of the film 24 Hour Party People, depicting, ...

The roots of Little Shop of Horrors are long and deep: it’s an oft-revived stage musical, freely adapted from a cult classic ...

The English love a posh eccentric. Romance novelist Barbara Cartland was as posh as they come and ...

As we approach the end of 2025, we’re looking back at the things that have brought us immense comfort during the year. For the team at Northern Soul, books were once again a source of great joy, and ...

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. “I haven’t done a show for ...

For the British Textile Biennial 2025, artists and makers filled spaces – which previously, directly or indirectly, powered Lancashire’s cotton industry – with stories of innovation in textile ...

There’s a painting at the heart of From Here To Here To Here, part way through a decade of Louise Giovanelli’s collected works, and it looks a lot like Blackpool. Light glistens across the liquid gold ...

There’s an episode of the 90s hit comedy Father Ted where the lads on Craggy Island are visited by Father Damian Lennon, a young Dublin priest and pound-shop Liam Gallagher, who you know is rebellious ...

For those of us – and there are a fair few – with Irish ancestry, cornerstones of Irish culture hold a special appeal. Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel’s poignant play inspired by his own family’s ...