You may know about Louis Le Prince’s Leeds connection and his invention of the moving picture here in Leeds. This month Chris Nickson tells us what happened next for cinema in Leeds after that technological […]
You will know Chris Nickson as a writer of gripping historical crime fiction but he is also a noted music journalist and this month he reveals a little piece of Leeds pop music history. If
Wes Brown tells us about the five settings in Leeds that inspired his new novel When Lights Are Bright. Vladimir Nabokov would create floor plans of fictional buildings, map routes of characters, draw items of
Chris Nickson takes a look at Leeds’ historic floods and instances of extreme weather. You can still donate to the Leeds Flood Appeal. There are full details at the end of this article. The devastation
Author AJ Kirby tells us what it means to him to be a Leeds writer. Back in November my esteemed colleague Richard Smyth (the author) and I were invited to appear on the panel for
‘West Riding iconoclast’ John Lake is at Leeds’ newest literary and music venue, the Hyde Park Book Club on Friday 11 December for the launch of his new novel Amy and the Fox, published by punk
The Romans in Leeds? Chris Nickson tells us more. Several months ago Leeds City Museum hosted a superb exhibition of Roman artefacts, quite a few of them from the collection of the British Museum. But
Frances Brody shares a little of the history of the Barnbow workers and the sacrifices they made. On a bitterly cold morning a couple of years or so ago, a small crowd gathered in Manston
As Remembrance Sunday approaches, historian Andrea Hetherington tells us about one Leeds family, the Ives, whose three sons fought in WW1 and whose family grave is at Lawnswood Cemetery. Their story, along with many others
