Arguments Yard, Whitby, c.1890.

Lots of 'Made in Manchester' talks and events planned for this autumn, including Chorlton Book Festival ChorltonBookFestival, Manchester Lit & Phil The Manchester Lit & Phil and loads of local societies. Watch here for announcements.

Absolutely thrilled to share this from Graham Norton!! #TheInheritance out 19th Sept Preorder now at all good bookshops! RT🙏🏽

Salford Police Station Car Park by Peter James Houghton #Art #NorthernArt

So many #peakdistrict villages feel removed from the loud rush of the 21st Century. On this misty morning, the first touches of gold in the trees and the lanes silent, it felt as if I'd tumbled back a hundred years when I turned the corner in Ashford-in-the-Water.

A UK-wide wave of strikes by schoolchildren started #OTD 1911. It began when pupils in Llanelli, Wales walked out in sympathy with a boy disciplined by a deputy headmaster. Walkouts spread to at least 62 towns and cities. Came at time of widespread industrial unrest.

Wildlife trust seeks help to buy 3,000 acres of Skiddaw mountain slopes to 'put more wildlife back into a spectacular part of the Cumbrian landscape'. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Runcorn Roofs (Oil on Canvas) by R. Knight #Art #NorthernArt

Going to get Northerners A History for my American OH, sixteen years and he still has no idea half the time what I'm on about

Tickets going fast.

EXCLUSIVE: Rail operator Northern has been handed a 'breach notice' by the Government because of its high number of recent cancelled services Read more about it in today's Northern Agenda politics newsletter... 1/4

NEW: There are still 157 unsafe high-rise buildings in Greater Manchester, seven years on from the Grenfell fire Manchester News MEN manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…

"....the conversation turned to football and working-class communities, and then works teams and clubs that evolved from works teams...." Available via Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books from 21/10/24 #WorkandPlay 👇 pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/work-and-…

And the wetlands shall rise again, by artist Paula Dunn. Inspired by the North York Moors: up towards the Danby Beacon and looking down into Little Fry-up. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

'Creative bank' worth £50m planned for the North. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Salman Rushdie’s knife attack memoir longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize. theguardian.com/books/article/…

🧵 for anyone interested in following historical fiction and non fiction writers, readers, researchers 👏 follow History Book Chat for info on #HistoryWritersDay24 next month!

Peter Brook always had a keen eye for detail. In ‘On the Road - Drawing’ it is not Peter and Shep who catch the eye, but the bright red GIVE WAY sign leaning into the picture, while not one of the telegraph poles flanking the road as it disappears into the distance is straight.

Elswick Kids, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978, by Tish Murtha.

Stonehenge tale gets ‘weirder’ as Orkney is ruled out as altar stone origin. theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…