BBC’s Little Painting Challenge winners are selected for display at the Whitworth
Over 29,000 works of art were submitted to BBC Learning’s The Little Painting Challenge, a UK-wide competition launched to get the nation painting and...
New book tells 365 tales of Manchester’s grim past
On the 23rd of June 1828 in Ancoats, a young boy was handed a fruit cake by a women asking him to deliver it...
6 VC’s before breakfast-Lancashire Fusiliers Medals are reunited in new exhibition
A new exhibition to commemorate one hundred years since the Gallipoli landings is opening in Bury this weekend.
6 VCs before breakfast will be the...
John Rylands turns the clock back to 1874 election
With less than 3 weeks to go before the General Election, The John Rylands Library is highlighting a handful of 19th century satirical prints...
A chance to see some of the best new comedy in development in the...
Plans have been announced for the Salford Sitcom Showcase 2015, at dock10 Studios, MediaCityUK, on Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 May.
The shows will be...
Much more than Mother’s Ruin
About Manchester travels to Warrington and looks at the remarkable history of one of the oldest gin distillers in the country
When fire took hold...
Take me back to Manchester
One of Manchester Museum’s prize exhibits is the skeleton of Maharajah the elephant who walked to Manchester from Edinburgh with his keeper Lorenzo the Lion Tamer...
World’s oldest angling club casts a new line in Manchester
Dozens of anglers will soon be a familiar sight on the Rochdale Canal through Manchester city centre, thanks to a new fishing agreement between...
Abraham Lincoln
Today marks marks 150 years since United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at The Ford’s Theatre, Washington D.C. He died...
Manchester team creates detailed guide to spotting dark matter.
It might well make up much of our universe and now the largest single high definition map of mysterious dark matter has been produced,...
