As people, we place a lot of faith in bread. We break bread as a basis for friendship. The smell of baking bread, we believe, can even help us to sell a home. It can make us feel useful. But does it represent redemption? I met...
Read MoreWe have an opportunity to build something new in the North, so can we not rely on a pale, male and stale stereotype? This is not anti-man. This is not anti-white-man. Hell reader, I married one. This is a wish, an ambition, a...
Read MoreChristmas Eve ghost stories used to be as important a festive tradition as a mince pie. On this month’s Northern Soul Podcast, Laura Brown talks to four Northern horror writers about Christmas, ghosts, M.R. James and TV...
Read MoreHurrah and huzzah! It’s time for the Northern Soul Podcast. This month Laura Brown asks, are we snobbish when it comes to art? She explores the concept of ‘threshold phobia’ – the physical act of walking into...
Read MoreLanguage shapes how we see places and the people living in them, says Laura Brown. But the North loses the language game, and has done for generations. The language we use when we describe a place is vital, it shapes people’s...
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