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Tourists visiting a family attraction earlier this month were surprised to see a famous musician and TV presenter in their midst, as broadcaster…

STORY telling charity Settle Stories is celebrating after being awarded thousands of pounds by Arts Council England.

The Ripon Museum Trust is celebrating its 40th year by getting the community involved in its latest exhibition.

Heritage projects that celebrate working class history across the region have been awarded tens of thousands of pounds from Historic England.

CULTURAL and creative organisations across the region are to receive a share of £400m as part of a vital financial boost from the Government’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced details of more than 2,700 organisations being offered millions of pounds in grants and loans to help the culture and heritage sector reopen and recover from the pandemic Among the recipients is Darlington Hippodrome, which will use its grant to offset losses from canc...

CULTURAL and creative organisations across the region are to receive a share of £400million as part of a vital financial boost from the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced details of over 2,700 organisations being offered millions of pounds in grants and loans to help the culture and heritage sector reopen and recover from the pandemic Among the recipients is Darlington Hippodrome, which will use its grant to offset losses fr...

Your letters By an extraordinary coincidence, on the morning that I received my December copy of Dalesman, I had just had a twenty-minute conversation over the phone with the ex-POW and very talented organist to whom WR Mitchell referred in his nostalgic article. Johannes Baumann was a nineteen-year-old musician, captured in Guernsey and brought to Bolton Abbey camp almost at the end of the war. He requested permission from the camp commandant to keep up his skills by practising on the church o...

Your letters By an extraordinary coincidence, on the morning that I received my December copy of Dalesman, I had just had a twenty-minute conversation over the phone with the ex-POW and very talented organist to whom WR Mitchell referred in his nostalgic article. Johannes Baumann was a nineteen-year-old musician, captured in Guernsey and brought to Bolton Abbey camp almost at the end of the war. He requested permission from the camp commandant to keep up his skills by practising on the church o...

Online exhibition highlights lives of people in workhouses The stories of Ripon Union Workhouse female inmates form part of a major new online exhibition VOLUNTEERS from a city museum have been working on a major new online exhibition about people in the workhouse system. Ripon Museum Trust volunteers from The Workhouse Museum have worked on the exhibition presented by The Workhouse Network called More Than Oliver Twist and presented on the Google Arts & Culture platform. The More Than Ol...