2+ week, 6+ day ago   (509+ words) This week’s Cultured. On Sunday is landing a little later than usual. Apologies for that. I (Sam) have spent the past couple of days clocking up 40,000 steps (and 12 stand-up shows) on the cobbled streets of Edinburgh. And while my Apple…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1091+ words) They’ll be making windmills in Blyth this weekend which isn’t an inappropriate activity for a town deeply invested in renewable energy. But these aren’t the giant wind turbines you’ll find at ORE Catapult, one of Blyth’s thriving employers and innovators....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (403+ words) One of the North East’s best-loved folk songs has been given a new interpretation in a permanent audio installation at The Glasshouse, in Gateshead. The specially commissioned work takes The Water of Tyne, the beloved traditional song telling of two…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (288+ words) At the end of the Second World War, a Northumberland woman’s RAF grandfather brought home a “souvenir” of his service in the conflict. It was a signed copy of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf which was given to the British…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (535+ words) Fifty years ago saw the realisation of the dream of Frank Atkinson, founder of what is now the North East’s biggest visitor attraction. In 1976, Rowley Station became the first relocated building to be opened at Beamish Museum by Poet Laureate…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (412+ words) In the first decade of the 18th century in a Tyneside town, a businessman with a name nobody would forget built what would become one of the country’s leading glassworks. Onesiphorus Dagnia – the Greek name of a figure from the Bible…...