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October 4, 2025

There’s nothing soft about Northern literary power

Ilkley Literature Festival explores 'soft power' and the North's poetic spirit
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Published on October 04, 2025 03:20

September 27, 2025

Sinners In Streaming Video

Why burn books when we can incinerate the minds that make them?
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Published on September 27, 2025 05:33

September 21, 2025

Machines made flesh

Scientists are 'fleshing' out the next stage of robot evolution
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Published on September 21, 2025 04:30

September 13, 2025

We’ve all got a cross to bear

A tiny Saxon cross unearthed in a Leeds field is telling a story about the city's early medieval past
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Published on September 13, 2025 02:01

September 6, 2025

Vampires can’t partake without an invitation

Whitby hosts its very first literary festival later this year
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Published on September 06, 2025 08:21

August 31, 2025

Under a sky of urban blight

Welcome to the world-sprawling city of Terapolis
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Published on August 31, 2025 04:01

August 8, 2025

It’s all about the social connection

Social reading has met social housing, with the latter offering a Liverpool charity funding support to pursue its goal of furthering culture and well-being through a love of words
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Published on August 08, 2025 03:50

July 13, 2025

Space mission’s patch design is child’s play

Scientists planning a trip to the International Space Station turned to children to design the mission patch
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Published on July 13, 2025 05:42

June 8, 2025

Chronically coping with poetry

Teenager Kyle Brooks has published a book of poems to chronicle his life with juvenile arthritis
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Published on June 08, 2025 03:03

May 4, 2025

Mainstream pop culture owes much to LGBTQ+ artists

A major exhibition at Manchester's John Rylands Library charts the extraordinary contribution LGBTQ+ artists have made to popular culture
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Published on May 04, 2025 08:06