Ninety years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, People’s History Museum is remembering the British volunteers, fundraisers, families and working people who saw fascism advancing across Europe - and decided that neutrality wasn't enough

Sheffield Grandad finds hope amid loneliness through inspirational community meals

A new community garden beneath Chapeltown’s Reflections of Carnival mural will turn a landmark public artwork into a place to pause, gather and celebrate Leeds’ Caribbean heritage

At Energising Britain North East & Yorkshire 2026, the climate transition wasn't an abstract policy debate. It was a cathedral roof, a football club, a chip shop, a housing charity - and a group of Bradford schoolkids showing the grown-ups what agency looks like

North East artist Kitt is turning the urgent need to fund their own gender-affirming healthcare into a participatory work of flowers, clay, tenderness and radical joy

After the riots, they wrote letters to their city. Now Britain is being invited to hear them

Can you sing, act and maintain your composure when somebody mentions an underproved focaccia? Ilkley Musical Theatre Society is holding auditions for its spring 2027 production of The Great British Bake Off Musical

From his rural home near York, Drew Colson is building singular analogue guitar amplifiers from Yorkshire hardwoods - beautiful enough to become heirlooms, but made to be played

Former Green Futures participant Willow Driscoll-Duke returns as a filmmaker with a documentary about nature, belonging and young people’s environmental hopes

Eight young people are being offered the chance to earn, learn and begin a career caring for some of the North’s most important landscapes.

The people who know Nidderdale’s rivers, becks and footpaths best are being asked to help identify invasive species before they spread further. A few minutes spent recording what we see could contribute to years of better-informed conservation work

A landmark DNA study suggests Nidderdale could be one of England’s most important strongholds for adders - and a powerful reminder that healthy landscapes are connected landscapes

Helmsley Walled Garden began life feeding great houses. Today, beneath the castle and inside old brick walls, it is doing something quieter, deeper and perhaps more necessary: feeding confidence, companionship, memory and belonging

Milvus milvus: The formerly endangered migrant - that is now one of the North's most successful breeders

In the sound of the curlew lies the spirit of the uplands - and this spring, Nidderdale is answering that call with music, walking and a shared commitment to conservation.

A Big Birthday for two of our favourite NYM destinations

As the Aesthetica Art Prize marks two decades, York Art Gallery prepares to host a major international exhibition exploring ecology, identity, memory, technology and the unstable business of being human

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival 2026 explores home, refuge, memory and belonging through two visual arts exhibitions in Liverpool this July

At Aviva Studios, Ai Weiwei has built an exhibition from empire, industry, migration, war and personal captivity. Monumental in scale, Button Up! asks Manchester to look again at the forces that made the modern world — but its most powerful object may be the button that once fell from a prisoner’s trousers

Northern School of Contemporary Dance is marking four decades in Leeds with a free celebration of creativity, memory and community in the heart of Chapeltown

On the final afternoon of Newcastle’s Hoppings, the rides roared, the lights flashed and the prizes waited to be won. But beyond the machinery, MagNorth found the real spectacle of the Town Moor: thousands of people making a place together

At the Royal Armouries, more than 250 objects from Mongolia reveal an empire built through terrible violence - but also through movement, communication, cultural exchange and ideas that still shape our world. Colin Petch walks through the exhibition with Interpretation Manager Matthew Wood

Camilla George brings a new generation of extraordinary musicians to Harrogate’s Spiegeltent this summer. Behind the programme lies the story of Tomorrow’s Warriors: an organisation that has spent 35 years changing who gets heard, who gets supported — and, ultimately, the sound of British jazz itself

Real-life mother and daughter Christine and Lois Mackie will appear together on stage for the first time in a new northern production of Rona Munro’s prison drama Iron. But behind the irresistible casting story is a much darker examination of motherhood, memory and the price of a truth withheld for fifteen years