After an astonishing 55 episodes and a panoply of characters in Inside No. 9, Reece Shearsmith is ...

Hirst of Manchester publishing house Confingo to thank. On a bright afternoon whose slight chill whispers the coming of Samhain, a packed congregation has gathered to celebrate their matrimony in the ...

Sorry, I’m chugging Lemsip here.” Jenn Ashworth excuses herself a matter of minutes into our Friday afternoon call. She’s ...

In the case of Supermedium, a tale of two sensibilities currently being told at Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery, you can ...

In a manner of speaking, this is where it all began.

It’s apt, then, that Peter Ormerod’s book of his life and works, David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God, divining ...

Jones, himself a puckish 42 in non-matching socks, assures us that, outside the round of literature festivals in the concrete world, his virtual viewership is reassuringly short in the tooth. Host ...

On occasion, archives have a bad reputation. Some people think of them as dusty places filled with boring bureaucratic ...

“Make Egypt great again,” boomed the pharaoh from the stage of the Lyceum theatre. Parents in the packed audience of Sheffield families giggled at the spot-on Donald Trump parody at the start of Awful ...

These days, tradition is a double-edged sword. A blade that can be lofted by the balaclava-clad right, ready to pick another fight in the culture wars, it can nevertheless be satisfyingly resistant to ...

The English love a posh eccentric. Romance novelist Barbara Cartland was as posh as they come and more eccentric than most. Even so, were it not for Charles Spencer raking over the ashes of his sister ...

‘Japonisme’ is a French word for the 19th century European enthusiasm for Japanese culture. From Degas and Gauguin to The Mikado and Madam Butterfly, western artists celebrated the ending of Japanese ...