Queen’s Diamond Jubilee sees the UK’s longest public record unrolled
There weren't that many names on Workington's petition for Queen Victoria's great bash. But organisers glued together enough sheets of paper to find a place in historyThe recent system of e-petitions to Parliament has led to some mighty long lists of n...
Student publishes a new Shakespeare text
We're not talking First Folio, mind. This is the world of 2b r nt 2b - but with the highest of motivesWilliam Shakespeare's reputation has little to fear from history, but even so it's nice to know that he has got a Yorkshire student at Northumbria uni...
Saltaire Arts Trail welcomes the world
One of the north's best examples of a revived and flourishing industrial community is going artistically wild for the Bank Holiday weekendIn this cold and uninviting weather, the place to be is Saltaire near Bradford, which is holding its annual Arts T...
Fox family actors return to great-grandfather’s glittering Yorkshire hall
Edward, Emilia & Co are on stage at Harrogate's former Kursaal built by great (and great-great) grandad Samson Fox, inventor of the corrugated boiler flueFox hunters can have a field day in Harrogate this weekend when pretty much the entire acting dyna...
Yorkshire looks to Brontes in its hope for Chelsea Flower Show gold
Their evocation of the Pennine landscape was matchless, but the garden at the Parsonage seems to have been another matterThe Yorkshire Garden has been an eyecatcher at the Chelsea Flower Show for the last three years, always winning an award but not ye...
When tigers roamed Holmfirth
One of them, anyway. And it was as recently as the 1940s. Now the story of Fenella the Pennine Tigress is about to roar into songYorkshire villages are the guardians of some extraordinary stories, ranging from the pygmy tribe which lived at Brandisburt...
The story of a city by its modest modern guardian
John Thorp has not been able to prevent all carbuncles from wrinkling the face of Leeds. But his role as the UK's last Civic Architect shines through a long-awaited bookThe man who shaped modern Leeds was given an affectionate party last night to launc...
Moles dig up buried treasure where human trowels are banned
English Heritage keeps a careful watch as volunteers sift through hundreds of molehills on a fortress site near the Roman wallArchaeologists find it hard agree about the relative merits of excavating the ancient past or leaving it undisturbed until we ...
Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls find literary fame
Novelist who made the Costa award shortlist brings the 'fiendish northern sweets' into her plotAfter yesterday's news in the Guardian Northerner of the Bowes museum inspiring Booker prizewinner Peter Carey, here is a similar literary accolade for Wigan...
Salford scientists reveal the ‘sound of Stonehenge’
Whatever went on there, it would have impressed the ancient Britons. Even if it was only whispering.Salford's clever academics, who once took me shopping in a virtual supermarket – you sat in an armchair wearing a helmet and a glove – have now recr...
Booker’s double prizewinner adds to the lustre of county Durham’s Silver Swan
First it was Mark Twain. Now Peter Carey draws inspiration from the beautiful automaton in the Bowes MuseumIt couldn't happen to a nicer museum. The Bowes at Barnard Castle is enjoying a warm bath of free and generous publicity through the talents of P...
Poet Laureate takes on the witches
Carol Ann Duffy commissioned to write for Lancashire's big year - a thoughtful celebration of eight women and two men who were hanged for witchcraft 400 years agoThe poor, persecuted Pendle witches are at last getting recognition in spades, with everyt...
