I once spent an afternoon with the subject of a Len Grant photograph, specifically because he’d been the subject of a Len Grant photograph, for the purposes of a magazine column. It was a sundry few hours in the company of a...
Read MoreWe tend not to grasp that the UK endured a bloody civil war between 1969 and 1998. In her short professional life, before it was ended by a stray handgun bullet amid dissident rioting in Derry in 2019, the young journalist...
Read More“Manchester dominates my photography, I realise that now. And in some ways, this is my golden period.” – Richard Davis Richard Davis’s Hulme Crescent shots are iconic. If you were lucky, you may have caught some of...
Read MoreHere it is. The Manchester Martyrs were three members of a large gang who attacked a horse-drawn police van on Hyde Road in September 1867. Two leaders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood were sprung free and a police guard was...
Read MoreIn his new column, Northern Soul’s Manchester Correspondent, Danny Moran, reflects on the North-South divide and asks, does the North have a proper backbone? The North’s identity is not sufficiently well-defined to have...
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