Honouring the crew of S S Stockport
Artists, metalworkers and sculptors are being invited to submit design ideas for a memorial honouring the crew of the town’s World War Two rescue...
Manchester Theatre Awards 2017 revealed
Sheridan Smith and Danny Mac were among the winners at the Manchester Theatre Awards which were announced at The Lowry on Friday. Presented by comedian...
Manchester based author once dismissed for being “too African” has won a major literary...
Dr Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi has been awarded the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in Fiction, which includes a grant of $165,000, to support her writing. Jennifer, a...
Cash injection as Dippy heads for Rochdale
The Natural History Museum’s world famous exhibit is currently on a tour of 8 different venues across the country, with Rochdale set to be...
Can sea lions dance? Science research inspires new classical music
What if Benjamin Britten had taken inspiration from biomechanics and Antonio Vivaldi from artificial intelligence? Student composers are going some way towards finding out by using...
Shocking ‘sex manual’ from 1720 – banned until the 1960s
A ‘secrets of sex manual’ dating back to 1720, that was banned until the 1960s due to its shocking content, has been unearthed. Political correctness...
French Impressionist painting goes on display at the Harris Preston
The Harris Museum, Art Gallery and Library, in partnership with The Courtauld Gallery London, have forged links with workers on the old Courtaulds factory...
New book by Dave Haslam will be a masterful insider account of the Hacienda,...
Manchester writer and former Hacienda DJ Dave Haslam has announced that he will be publishing a book which will be a memoir of his life...
Leonardo work to go on display in Manchester next year
Leonardo Da Vinci's 1510 The Head of a Youth is go go on display at Manchester Art Gallery next year. It will be one of...
China’s terracotta warriors are on display in the North West
For over 2,000 years, an underground army of life-sized terracotta warriors secretly guarded the tomb of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, until a...
