Vostermans sees the pieces as shared creations, emerging from the creative visions of people from different worlds. You can find Vostermans’ work around the country including at Michelin-starred sō-lō ...

Coarse has a good selection of wine by the glass, and a bottle of Nyetimber which, at £55, has to be the resto fizz bargain ...

Arguably, the lessons learned in World War One didn’t last long enough to prevent the second. Nevertheless, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the combination of the two events, in such a ...

Between the start of World War One and the end of World War Two, an estimated 90-100 million ...

Black Sabbath – The Ballet from Birmingham Royal Ballet brings together classical ballet and the music of Black Sabbath, the pioneering heavy metal band formed in Birmingham in 1968. It’s an ambitious ...

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 ...

As December devours the daylight, it’s hard to avoid the winter skies. In the twinkling between dawn and dusk, their restless moods shift from eggshell expansiveness to concrete introspection, hemmed ...

The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle is one of my favourite places. A proper Northern gem, I keep coming back for its permanent collection, not least Isabella and The Pot of Basil by William Holman Hunt ...

‘In folk horror, the soil beneath our feet is seismically unstable’, writes Hollie Starling in her introduction to Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror. What a prescient collection ...

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 ...

The three cornerstones of Brass Art, Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz and Anneke Pettican, have been collaborating for a quarter of a century, a partnership pooling their identities into a collective ...

Inherently contrary, the North is resistant to many things: clothing proportionate to its climate, walking on escalators, the self-regard of the South. Above all, it is resistant to definition. The ...