Mary Griffiths: Everything and All of Us, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds
The paradox at the heart of Mary Griffiths’ works, collected in a 10-year retrospective at...
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Author: Desmond Bullen
Book Review: The Disappeared by Amy Lord
As the dominoes continue their haphazard topple in the wake of the EU Referendum, as a blowhard struts vaingloriously in the Oval Office, and as right-wing populism slithers out of its bunker and back into the daylight,...
Read MoreReview: Joy for Ever, The Whitworth, Manchester
It’s easy to have the last word when you’re arguing with a dead man. Or so you might think. The Whitworth’s latest exhibition is a belated riposte to the trolling of Manchester by the noted 19th century figure...
Read MoreGreat Northerners: Frank Randle
In this series, we celebrate Great Northerners. For Northern Soul‘s Desmond Bullen, it’s comedian and actor Frank Randle. Who gets your vote? He wasn’t born Frank Randle, and it would take time for Arthur Hughes of Aspull...
Read MoreBook Review: Alan Turing’s Manchester by Jonathan Swinton
On the face of it, Manchester’s claims to Alan Turing are slender. Born in London and educated in Cambridge, it was only in what were the final years of his life that Turing walked its streets and ran long distances...
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