Moreover, in the types of emporia they represent, they act as tidal markers of the ebb and flow of the high street, paper memorials to chains which are no longer extant. In this respect, an early ...

The Photo North festival was back for three packed days of talks, screenings and conversation woven around the Carriageworks in Leeds. On Saturday, Carolyn Mendelsohn opened the talks with an ...

The synergy of the artists’ respective approaches working in array, Broken Ecologies exemplifies exactly the kind of soft power that demagogues both deny and decry. Their reaction is the opposite of ...

If this is your bag, you’re going to love Mars Tapes, the last cassette shop in the UK (according to them, anyway). The shop ...

In a world brimming with artificial intelligence, the internet is awash with claims that 2026 is ...

This brilliantly conceived prelude to Britten’s elementally powerful Peter Grimes (1945) is the invention of the production’s ...

Arts: Commonplace, the modernist, Manchester.

This was the question preoccupying Britain in the long, hot summer of 1995, and is the subject of the gripping, visually ...

Lost Souls, the debut album by Cheshire trio Doves, was released 25 years ago. That quarter of a century has been a hell of a ride for the band, made up of brothers Andy and Jez Williams and frontman ...

As a student of literature picking up a modern novel involving interwar lavish consumerism in the West, I’m bracing myself for something rigidly estranged from the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

There’s a raw moment at the close of The Ladies Football Club which brings home how drastically life has changed in the last century. Violet, the instigator of a Sheffield munitions factory’s women’s ...

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 ...