Happy 100th Birthday Flying Scotsman!

Happy 100th Birthday Flying Scotsman!

In 1923, the LNER had its locomotive works in Doncaster, where it had plans for a larger and more powerful locomotive for its flagship service from London to Edinburgh. The new Chief Mechanical Engineer was Nigel Gresley, who was instrumental in the development of the...
Jolablot Festival, York 2023

Jolablot Festival, York 2023

Since 1985, York’s Viking Festival has been getting bigger and attracting more participants and visitors to celebrate a key time in the old Norse year – ‘Jolablot’, a period between winter solstice and the first full moon in January.  Pagan Norse people would...
Yorkshire’s Cultural Cities Celebrate

Yorkshire’s Cultural Cities Celebrate

Leeds will be a furnace of creativity throughout 2023 as the whole city lets culture loose and shows off its artistic strength in a programme that features major new commissions with world-renowned artists alongside celebrations of everyday creativity. The 12-month...
Harewood’s Curious Inhabitants

Harewood’s Curious Inhabitants

Harewood House is known as one of the great and grand Treasure Houses of Britain, full of impressive tapestries, paintings and artefacts collected from around the world by the Lascelles family over several hundred years. However, the countryside, beyond the formal...