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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

In the first of a new series on traditional Northern scran by the Northern Soul team, Karen Connolly reminisces about The Wigan Kebab. Raised in Wigan by an English mother and a Sicilian father, I was ...

This month, Lincoln has been treated to Scarborough Macabre, an off-season sojourn to the seaside in which artist Melody Phelan-Clark “regurgitates the strange and sinister nature of the British coast ...

Northern Soul's Steve Slack visits Manchester Museum following its £15 million refurbishment.