From teenage poetry readers in Hull to novels passed between friends, working-class reading takes many forms. A new edition of The Bee asks whether the debate about Britain’s reading crisis is overlooking the people already turning the pages

Molly is not a Northerner with a chip on her shoulder, but a Northerner eager to be at the forefront of the change we all want to see

A library becomes a hidden glade, local kids help build the world of the show, and every performance is Pay What You Can. With SPRiTES, ARCADE is putting shared imagination at the heart of Christmas in Scarborough

An exhibition arriving in Huddersfield traces the lives of people who sought refuge and those who helped them survive the Holocaust - while asking visitors to consider the circumstances in which those choices were made

At Oxford, Vivienne Hall finds that being Northern is no longer simply an inheritance. Between jokes about her accent, suggestions of “quota filling” and the temptation to blend in, she asks what we surrender - and what we strengthen -when identity becomes a choice

Fifteen years after her childhood home - a Victorian rectory turned celebrated hotel in Haughton Green in Manchester - was demolished for redevelopment, the site remains empty. Clair Challenor- Chadwick returns to Meadow Lane and asks what we lose when heritage disappears but development never comes

After travelling across three continents to explore how theatre can confront violence against women and girls, JoJo Kirtley brought the learning home. In Sunderland, schoolgirls, community groups and survivors are creating something larger than a podcast: a model of culture built around care, agency and the right to be heard

A wounded Lancashire weaver who pursued justice after Peterloo. An embroiderer connected to one of Manchester’s most important suffragette banners. At the People’s History Museum, family records are returning ordinary people to the democratic history they helped create

From grazing infrastructure to a family ice cream business in Lofthouse, more than 250 projects have received Farming in Protected Landscapes support in Nidderdale. Now, farmers and community organisations are being encouraged to bring forward their ideas — even before they have worked out all the details

A celebration of life and growth in urbanopolis highlights the importance of access and education in green space – no matter where it falls

At Hill Top, young tenant farmers Amy Dixon and Dan Fletcher are building a future among Herdwick sheep, uncertain agricultural policy and the legacy of Beatrix Potter. Their partnership with the National Trust reveals why sustaining the Lake District means supporting the people who live and work on its land.

Yorkshire endured just a tenth of its normal July rainfall. Rivers reached historic lows, soils baked and reservoirs retreated - yet much of the groundwater beneath northern England remained remarkably resilient. Is part of the answer to a hotter, drier future hiding in the rocks below us?

Evidence of large-scale prehistoric iron production unearthed in Thornton may shed some light on the origins of parts of the Melsonby Hoard - but many mysteries remain

This September, the North York Moors is inviting us to put down the phone, quieten the noise and rediscover the restorative power of walking, making, listening and paying attention

Flowers are set to fill two Kelham Island venues this month for a joyful new city festival - helping Bloom Sheffield continue providing free therapeutic gardening sessions for women who need support

That pebble fits perfectly in the palm. The shell would look lovely on a bathroom shelf. But on coastlines already being remade by tides, storms and millions of summer visitors, when does a harmless souvenir become something we should leave behind?

Pontefract performer Olivia Burton-Laws will use spoken English and British Sign Language in The Penelopiad at York Theatre Royal. As she begins her professional career, the Leeds Conservatoire graduate wants audiences and the industry to recognise the artistic strengths deaf actors bring

A medieval visionary meets a contemporary Northern artist in Ecstasy of the Virtues. Coming to Leeds and Barrow, Nwando Ebizie’s new opera brings together music, movement and sensory experience, with accessibility woven into its creation

A small bird facing an unfamiliar world is at the heart of Manjeet Mann’s new play for young children. Opening in Bingley before returning to Leeds for Christmas, Tutti Frutti’s latest production explores friendship, courage and the freedom to be yourself

At Manchester Central Library, Queer Up North founders Gavin Barlow and Tanja Farman revisit the festival they built together. As its first decade becomes a digital archive, their conversation opens a bigger question: how does a city remember the people who changed its cultural life - and support those coming next?

Bologna trio Savana Funk bring their blend of funk, blues and psychedelia to Manchester’s Band on the Wall and Newcastle’s Cobalt Studios this October, with new single ‘Làbas’ opening another door into their musical world

The Booker Prize-winning writer comes to the Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival with a new novel about fear, resistance and the stories people turn to when the future is uncertain

At Leeds Arts University, David Steans has built a gallery inside a gallery from paper, scraps and institutional unease. MagNorth meets the artist and curator Dr Marianna Tsionki to ask what a university gallery can make possible - for artists, students and a city

The Teesside producer’s dark and defiant new single takes aim at the politicians, media moguls and think tanks profiting from division - and turns their language into a declaration of solidarity