Mark Cantrell's Blog

Ilkley Literature Festival explores 'soft power' and the North's poetic spirit

Why burn books when we can incinerate the minds that make them?

Scientists are 'fleshing' out the next stage of robot evolution

A tiny Saxon cross unearthed in a Leeds field is telling a story about the city's early medieval past

Whitby hosts its very first literary festival later this year

Welcome to the world-sprawling city of Terapolis

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

Scientists planning a trip to the International Space Station turned to children to design the mission patch

Teenager Kyle Brooks has published a book of poems to chronicle his life with juvenile arthritis

A major exhibition at Manchester's John Rylands Library charts the extraordinary contribution LGBTQ+ artists have made to popular culture