Good luck to bookshops everywhere as they approach the busy season, including Waterstones Deansgate, Chorlton Bookshop @chorltonbookshop.bsky.social, Read Holmfirth, Waterstones Newcastle.

Red Road flats, Glasgow, May 1993, photo by Jeremy Sutton Hibbert (Café Royal Books).

Ken Burns on his American Revolution documentary: ‘We won’t work on a more important film’. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I'll be talking about 'Manchester Portraits - 20 Fascinating Figures from the Region's Past' at Saddleworth Historical Society, Weds 10th December 7.30, Saddleworth Museum, Uppermill. Visitors £3. (Pic Saddleworth Viaduct by Edwin Bottomley)

Bonding, painting by Claudia Williams (1933-2024), English-born artist who spent most of her life in Wales. #WomensArt

Borough by borough - exactly what the £1bn growth fund will bring to your area of Greater Manchester @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Statue to 'remarkable' woman who escaped slavery unveiled in North Shields. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Best Friends on a Night Out, painting by Lucy Manfredi (b. 1974).

Manchester, 1964, photo by Shirley Baker.

Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire, photo by landscape photographer Paula Beaumont.

The Pineapple Inn, Stockport, painting by James Downie (b. 1949). #NorthernArt

‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Farm labourers, Ireland, c.1857, attributed to Augusta Crofton, pioneering photographer from Roscommon.

Afternoon walk, Greenfield, Saddleworth.

I’ll be giving an online talk on ‘Northern Writers’ for Elizabeth Gaskell’s House on Weds Nov 26th, 7pm, £6. (Lancashire Day, but I’ll be talking about writers from across northern England.) Book here: elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/events/north/

Tenements, Anderston, Glasgow, 1964, painting by Herbert Whone (1925-2011), artist and violinist. Born in Bingley, music education in Manchester, became deputy leader of Scottish National Orchestra.

The Old Royal Exchange, Cross Street, Manchester, looking towards the corner with Market Street, late 19th or early 20th century (Archives+).

The Engine Driver, Newcastle upon Tyne, by Edgar G. Lee, 1860-1915 (Northumberland Archives).

Union Hotel, Manchester, 1974, photo by Martin Parr (Magnum).

Lancashire Bridge, Stockport, late 19th century.

Yorkshire author Phyllis Bentley was born in Halifax on this day 1894. Her most famous novel Inheritance (1932), telling the Oldroyd family's story, was serialised by Granada in 1967, starring John Thaw and James Bolam. Turned ‘there’s trouble at th’mill’ into a catchphrase.

Racist abuse curtails consultation on Glasgow slavery links. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Line of Duty to return for seventh series on BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Evacuees in Montgomeryshire, Wales, 9 September 1939, photo by Geoff Charles, 1909-2002 (National Library of Wales).

This Saturday, all welcome.

Rail company Northern aims for 30m more journeys by 2030. But can it deliver? www.business-live.co.uk/economic-dev...

Shades of Evening, 1904, painting by Mildred Anne Butler, Irish artist, 1858-1941 (National Gallery of Ireland). #WomensArt

Miner’s daughter carries a young girl in her arms during the 1921 national coal strike, photo by Hal Morey, American photographer.

Morning all. Photographer Gordon Haws, Govan 1973. flickr.com/photos/22960...

Wet Saturday Afternoon, painting by Bob Richardson (b.1938 in Salford). #NorthernArt

Fishergate, Preston, mid-20th century.

Bamburgh Castle First Light, photo by Emma Rothera.

Incredible story of Irish labourer buried alive in coffin for 61 days told in new documentary. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

'Made in Manchester' is a top twenty Amazon bestseller in British Historical Social & Urban History Biographies.

Suffragettes in London's Hyde Park, 1908, photo by Scottish photographer Christina Broom (1862-1939), the UK's first female press photographer, who documented the women's suffrage movement.

Fun and Games, painting by Nick Holly, Welsh artist from Swansea (b.1968).

Sewing machinists at work inside the Tootal clothing factory in Manchester, 1955 (Picture Post/Getty).

North of England, 1965, photo by John Bulmer.

Two Women, Nelson, Lancashire, 1975, by Daniel Meadows.

Welsh social reformer Robert Owen died on this day 1858, aged 86. At 21, became manager of Manchester's Piccadilly Mill, where he ran an enlightened regime, joined the Literary and Philosophical Society. Later carried the principles into model community at New Lanark, Scotland.

Divorce referendum protest at the General Post Office, Dublin, 1986, photo by Tony O’Shea.

Whitby: 'I own a 105-year-old bookshop - but I'm not really a reader'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Presbyterian Church in Ireland entering one of the most turbulent chapters in its 185-year history because of a safeguarding crisis. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Monmouth pulls together after unprecedented floods. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brother and Sister outside a Glasgow tenement, 1955, painting by Joan Eardley, 1921-63 (Aberdeen Gallery). #WomensArt

Kids on an unnamed street in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, 1965 (Manchester Libraries).

The Yorkshire Dales National Park was established on this day 1954 and extended 2016. Most is in North Yorkshire, with a sizeable area in Cumbria and a small part in Lancashire (photo Ribblehead Viaduct).

Green lairds, Lego millions and the battle to buy back Scotland’s land. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Mr and Mrs Hudson, Seacroft Green, Leeds, 1974, photo by Peter Mitchell.

One Summer’s Day We Went on a Trip to New Brighton, painted 1972 by Helen Bradley (1900-79). She began to paint her distinctive scenes of an Edwardian girlhood at age 65. #WomensArt #NorthernArt