At Oxford, Vivienne Hall finds that being Northern is no longer simply an inheritance. Between jokes about her accent, suggestions of “quota filling” and the temptation to blend in, she asks what we surrender - and what we strengthen -when identity becomes a choice

Fifteen years after her childhood home - a Victorian rectory turned celebrated hotel in Haughton Green in Manchester - was demolished for redevelopment, the site remains empty. Clair Challenor- Chadwick returns to Meadow Lane and asks what we lose when heritage disappears but development never comes

After travelling across three continents to explore how theatre can confront violence against women and girls, JoJo Kirtley brought the learning home. In Sunderland, schoolgirls, community groups and survivors are creating something larger than a podcast: a model of culture built around care, agency and the right to be heard

A wounded Lancashire weaver who pursued justice after Peterloo. An embroiderer connected to one of Manchester’s most important suffragette banners. At the People’s History Museum, family records are returning ordinary people to the democratic history they helped create

Built from the anonymised life stories of minority Buddhist communities in Britain and Japan, a new digital artwork by Sian Fan enters the uncertain territory between fear and belonging - without attempting to hold either still

Northern England is preparing to build homes, transport systems and entire urban neighbourhoods. Humanise campaign leader Abigail Scott Paul argues that design is not an indulgence: it shapes our health, dignity and sense of belonging - and the people who live with its consequences deserve a voice

Its British story began in a North Yorkshire village, with a mission to shelter people society had rejected. More than 140 years later, one of the country’s longest-established social care charities has a new name - and wants to make considerably more noise

For seven years, the Middleton writer has been sober. Horror fiction has become one way to explore the feelings she once struggled to name. Now she is bringing that experience to Manchester’s Recoverist Month

Yorkshire endured just a tenth of its normal July rainfall. Rivers reached historic lows, soils baked and reservoirs retreated - yet much of the groundwater beneath northern England remained remarkably resilient. Is part of the answer to a hotter, drier future hiding in the rocks below us?

Evidence of large-scale prehistoric iron production unearthed in Thornton may shed some light on the origins of parts of the Melsonby Hoard - but many mysteries remain

This September, the North York Moors is inviting us to put down the phone, quieten the noise and rediscover the restorative power of walking, making, listening and paying attention

Flowers are set to fill two Kelham Island venues this month for a joyful new city festival - helping Bloom Sheffield continue providing free therapeutic gardening sessions for women who need support

That pebble fits perfectly in the palm. The shell would look lovely on a bathroom shelf. But on coastlines already being remade by tides, storms and millions of summer visitors, when does a harmless souvenir become something we should leave behind?

On a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust walk at Spurn, MagNorth explores erosion, wildlife, military history and the power of helping young people connect with conservation

A Yorkshire Dales charity has helped build a national recycling network for redundant tree shelters. But with millions of plastic guards still scattered across Britain’s woodlands, campaigners say their eventual removal must be planned - and paid for - before the first tree goes into the ground

At Yeavering, one of early medieval Britain’s most important royal centres has almost vanished back into the Northumberland landscape. This summer, archaeology, storytelling, food and communal celebration will bring it vividly into view again

Neil Tennant, Susanna Clarke and Christopher Eccleston will help draw audiences to Durham this October. But behind the names is a larger ambition: to rebuild human connection, open up the world of books and ensure northern talent no longer has to leave the region to find opportunity

More than 60 artists and makers will open studios, homes, galleries and workshops for Berwick’s first town-wide Open Studios. It is a chance to see the creative life already presentand - and to ask how public investment can help it flourish

John Cooper Clarke, Jackie Kay and Salena Godden are among the celebrated writers heading to Morecambe—but this festival’s most important work may be happening closer to home, as local poets, children and first-time performers claim their place on the programme

Punks, goths, emos, metalheads, rockabillies and the gloriously unclassifiable will inherit Manchester this October, as the city’s first Alternative Fashion Week puts subculture - and the people who create it - firmly under the lights

A new partnership between The Biscuit Factory and Ad Gefrin is set to take contemporary art from Newcastle to Wooler bringing artists, audiences and Northumberland’s long traditions of making into the same room

From sketches made in the middle of a gig to murals shaped by lyrics and paintings about identity, a new York exhibition asks what music looks like after the last note has faded

A conservatoire, a recent graduate and an influential educator have reached the Parliamentary Jazz Awards shortlist. Together, they tell a larger story about what sustained northern cultural investment makes possible

They learnt their craft in one of Britain’s great colliery bands. Now the musicians behind Dizzy Brasscals are replacing competition pieces with Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and Oasis - and asking Manchester to supply the vocals