These Things Take Time A celebration of Manchester at The Royal Exchange www.northernsoul.me.uk/even-these-t...

Back To Nature at the Castlefield Gallery www.northernsoul.me.uk/out/

Sacred Art Michaela Yearwood-Dan at The Whitworth www.northernsoul.me.uk/michaela-yea...

The Rules of Attraction A fine bill of fare at The Lowry www.northernsoul.me.uk/curtain-up-l...

See Those Eyes Rachel Maclean sees those AIs at FACT www.northernsoul.me.uk/rachel-macle...

Golden Lights Louise Giovanelli returns to The Grundy www.northernsoul.me.uk/louise-giova...

My Bag The Warholian multiples of the High Street at Dorothy. www.northernsoul.me.uk/excess-bagga...

Whole Again Beneath its wind dial, The Portico dreams if reunification. www.northernsoul.me.uk/everything-n...

Love Like Blood Complementary voices come together at the Castlefield Gallery. www.northernsoul.me.uk/broken-ecolo...

Not strolling, bur scrolling. A meander amongst the overlooked with the modernist. www.northernsoul.me.uk/commonplace-...

Step Inside Love Delaine Le Bas peels back the wallpaper in the Witch House www.northernsoul.me.uk/un-fair-grou...

Northern Exposure Peter James Houghton's acrylic twilights at the modernist. www.northernsoul.me.uk/peter-james-...

There is a light... Diamonds in the ashes of the Year of Culture. www.northernsoul.me.uk/brighter-sti...

My "almost" nightly photo of the Moon. #SantaBarbara #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography Settings: Canon T5i Sigma 150mm x 600mm Focal length: 600mm F-stop: f/10 Exposure time: 1/1250 ISO: 800 #Moon phase: Waxing 77%

The Northern Soul 2025 Selection Books www.northernsoul.me.uk/best-reads-2...

The Look of Love David Hockney is alive to possibility at the venue formerly known as Factory International www.northernsoul.me.uk/david-hockne...

Jen Orpin's human landscapes at Saul Hay. www.northernsoul.me.uk/jen-orpin-sa...

All About [uz] A broad canvas of Yorkshire working class art at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery www.northernsoul.me.uk/uz-uz-uz-lee...

Goin' Back To My Roots At HOME www.northernsoul.me.uk/roots-sky-ho...

Tongues Of Fire Lighting up Manchester Literature Festival www.northernsoul.me.uk/cabaret-for-...

For The Dead. Manchester's adopted Hallowe'en classic. www.northernsoul.me.uk/manchester-m...

Farage: epic grifter

The Manchester Carriage Company was founded by John Greenwood, who started the UK's first bus service - between Pendleton and Manchester - in 1824, five years before London's first bus service (Museum of Transport Greater Manchester.)

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Marina Abramovic is transcendent at the venue formerly known as Factory www.northernsoul.me.uk/marina-abram...

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.

Prising the Turner away from London. www.northernsoul.me.uk/turner-prize...

On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.

LOVE SUSSEX. HATE RACISM. SUSSEX ANTI-FACISTS

It's #WorldOctopusDay! Pictured here a “Polypus levis Hoyle” from a 1910 publication on the German Deep-Sea Expedition of 1898, led by Leipzig University Professor of Zoology, Carl Chun. Buy it as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/octopus/

2x as many people came out to celebrate LBGTQ in London as went to Tommy Robinson's Far Right riot, and they didn't pay people to come. We can easily beat them.

Owner of Twitter calls for violence and what sounded like an insurrection UK government: Let’s put some more money into ads on “X”

George Best made his Manchester United debut on this day 1963, aged 17. Here he is playing cricket with neighbours' kids while lodging on Aycliffe Avenue, Chorlton, Manchester, 1965. Photo by Bill Cross.

Allotments in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens, 1947 (Manchester Libraries).

Bridal High The Gedge of Heaven in Leeds www.northernsoul.me.uk/reception-we...

The Last Word Russell T Davies rages against the lying of the right. www.northernsoul.me.uk/cucumber-tv-...

It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...

Jeremy Hunt literally owning a property empire, sells a number of properties and avoids a huge slice of tax. Nothing said. Angela Rayner buying a house on the coast & it’s absolutely outrageous. Working class girl, getting above her station. Aspiration, only when it suits. This country eh?

Princess Treat Like a Barbie animation for a wider demographic. www.northernsoul.me.uk/lesbian-spac...

William Wilberforce was born #OTD 1759. From a family of wealthy merchants in Hull, evangelical Anglican who led the 20-year parliamentary campaign to abolish Britain’s slave trade, with eventual success.

Where The Art Is A group show in Warrington www.northernsoul.me.uk/any-body-hom...

Pit brow lasses (and one man) at Rose Bridge Colliery, Wigan, late 19th century. Their job was to remove stones from the coal.

Winner of the Whitley Bay sandcastle competition, 19th August 1908.

Bless these Alaskans!

"How is it that the world is watching, and not stopping it?" www.northernsoul.me.uk/palestine-bl...

Tales From The Riverbank Liam Spencer's images of the Irwell; the phoenix river. www.northernsoul.me.uk/irwell-liam-...

Space Age Daydream Th lost art of The Perspectivists at the modernist. www.northernsoul.me.uk/perspectivis...