First World War sounds echo through Imperial War museum (North) artwork

The roar of a First World War biplane and the echoes of a field gun from the trenches will greet visitors to IWM North...

Harold Brighouse-the last of the Manchester school

Eccles Born Harold Brighouse, whose most famous play Hobson's Choice is currently being performed at the Oldham Coliseum, is one of the region's unsung...

Review-Manchester Camerata at the Albert Hall

Closed, hidden and forgotten for over forty years, Manchester's Albert Hall came alive yesterday afternoon with the sounds of classical music as Manchester Camerata...

Manchester’s Victoria Cross Heroes’ graves included in restoration project

The final resting place of thirteen of the region's First World War Victoria Cross winners will be restored to their former glory. Communities Secretary Eric...

Manchester’s new buildings gain plaudits from British Architects institute

Three Greater Manchester buildings have been recognized by the Royal Institute of British Architects at a prestigious awards ceremony held in recognition of their...

Chorltonville musical history to be recreated on its fiftieth anniversary

Back in 1964, Granada Television turned up at the already disused Wilbraham station in Chorlton and used it as a backdrop for a 1930s...

Un-Rest Comes To Victoria Baths

Victoria Baths is hosting a ten-day celebration exploring the power of physical movement, including the phenomenon of Northern Soul, with an explosive line-up of...

Bookmark festival returns to Oldham

If books and literature are your thing, then look no further than next week in Oldham with the return of the borough's Bookmark festival. Starting...

From Street to Trench-A War that shaped a region

A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North on Salford Quays aims to tell the stories of the people of the North West...

From the war of nature-Manchester Museum until 7th September

Cruel as death and hungry as a grave Burning for blood bony, gaunt and grim Assembling wolves in torrents descend And spread wide-wasting desolation around A new exhibition...