Articles relating to: Steve Slack
Book Review: The Walker – On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont
Cancel your 2020 winter getaway. Holidays are off. In fact, with lockdown 2.0 now in force, you can’t even go on a city break in the UK.
Bishop Auckland: past, present and future
The train pulls into the station, the driver gets out of the cab and switches ends to take it back to Darlington. It’s only then that I realise we’ve been travelling on a single track railway. Bishop Auckland is the end of the line in so many ways.
Online exhibition: Talking Sense, The Portico Library, Manchester
Museums, art galleries and libraries across the North are now off limits to the public, their displays and collections sitting behind locked doors.
The national museum of democracy on its tenth anniversary: People’s History Museum
The UK’s national museum of democracy is 10 years old this week.
Review: Walk Without Fear, Mines Advisory Group, Manchester Central Library
A group of kids are playing with a homemade football, fashioned out of plastic bags.
Review: Van Gogh – The Immersive Experience, York St Mary’s
How often do you go to an art gallery and find yourself bored by the interpretation? The labels on the wall can be awful.
Beyond the history: Peterloo exhibitions in Manchester
This summer Manchester will mark the anniversary of a public pro-democracy demonstration on August 16, 1819, and its now infamous and bloody response from the authorities.
Hotel Review: AC Hotel, Manchester City Centre
The hotel market in central Manchester is hugely competitive with both 3-star and 5-star offerings pretty much closed shops.
Book review: Irreplaceable – A History of England in 100 Places by Philip Wilkinson
Historic England’s new book of ‘irreplaceable’ places in England locates a decent proportion of them in the North.
Book Review – The British Mosque: an architectural and social history by Shahed Saleem
In the North of England, the chances are you’re closer to a mosque than you think.
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