Vostermans sees the pieces as shared creations, emerging from the creative visions of people from different worlds. You can ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Words have their own particular architecture. A scaffolding of syntax and a skeleton of grammar that both shapes and constrains the sayable. Dance, by way of contrast, has the facility to slip beyond ...