It’s a pleasure to see four northern actresses – Victoria Brazier, Polly Lister, Helen Flanagan and Vicky Binns – playing lead roles in this dark, funny comedy at Bolton Octagon.

The Guardians of Living Matter is a sci-fi, speculative exhibition set in the future in 2076,” explains artist Sophy King as ...

It’s hard to square that image with the first sight of Leeds Dock now: crisp lines of glass and steel, clean walkways, water ...

If Hamnet left you feeling devastated, go and see this because it will build you back up. Set in 19th-century Yorubaland and ...

The Coniston Hotel, Country Estate & Spa, Skipton - the Editor of Northern Soul, Helen Nugent, escapes to the country.

As we approach the end of 2025, we’re looking back at the things that have brought us immense ...

For anyone wondering whether there is any humanity left in this troubled world, I am delighted to confirm that there is – I have just found it in the form of Flapjack Press’s new release, The First ...

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.

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...

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 ...

For those of us – and there are a fair few – with Irish ancestry, cornerstones of Irish culture hold a special appeal. Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel’s poignant play inspired by his own family’s ...

Grace Darling was the lighthouse keeper’s daughter on Longstone, one of the Farne Islands off the stunning Northumberland coast. One September morning in 1838, she and her father rowed out to rescue ...