‘relevance to lives lived today’ The Holly Johnson Story, Museum of Liverpool
Relax. You know the song. And you probably know the band, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. But can you...
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Author: Steve Slack
Exhibition Review: What Kind of City? by Suzanne Lacy, The Whitworth, Manchester
Major gallery exhibitions tend to have one artist’s name over the door. Right now, at The Whitworth in Manchester, that name is Suzanne Lacy. But this is exhibition is so much more than one person. There’s no self-important ego...
Read MoreBook Review: Manchester – Something Rich and Strange
Attempting to sum up the city of Manchester in one book is no small task. Writers who have sought to do that in the past have tended to offer up words that don’t do the city justice. The co-editors of Manchester: Something Rich...
Read MoreBook 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. You could, however, journey somewhere new via a travel book. Perhaps you’ll read a tale of...
Read MoreBishop 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...
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