Back at the start of last year, Northern Soul spoke to curator Jan Hicks about the then-forthcoming Science and Industry Museum exhibition about Factory – that’s to say, Tony Wilson and co’s now-legendary northern...
Read MoreAs the interactive virtual tour came to an end, our digital guide remarked that they hoped visitors to Elizabeth Gaskell’s House would receive as authentic an experience as “it would have been in Elizabeth’s lifetime”. The...
Read MoreInstagram filters are not the first tool to be used to distort and manipulate the female form. A new online exhibition by Newcastle’s Discovery Museum charts how women’s bodies have been artificially changed from the...
Read MoreMuseums may be closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but one Manchester-based academic has found a way to bring Egyptology to people in the comfort of their own homes. Egyptologist and curator at Manchester Museum, Campbell...
Read MoreJan Hicks has a particular, distinctive memory of growing up in the early 80s. “I remember Blue Monday being played on Piccadilly Radio, being in the kitchen at home and telling my mum and dad and brother and sister to shut up...
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