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The Coal Anthology: Book of miners strike poems, prose and photographs to launch at NCMME

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Mark Cranston who has built an amazing collection of bricks.

I have a collection of 4,000 bricks...each one tells a story

The Jorvik Viking Centre is among the nominees.

Things to do in Yorkshire: Eight attractions to visit on a rainy day

Trouble At T'Mill Worsbrough Mill needs your help

Ad Feature Trouble at T’Mill £40k appeal to save 400 year old Worsbrough Mill

A complete Shackleton aircraft. (Pic credit: Yorkshire Air Museum)

Yorkshire Air Museum: Pieces arrive for submarine hunting aircraft

Lakeland Motor Museum Curator Chris Lowe among some of the many exhibits at the museum

On your doorstep this half term – world class autumnal lakes and landscapes!

Three brandy glasses during Ararat factory tour

I tried brandy in Armenia - and it has made me a convert

Eden Camp Modern History Museum in Malton is set to host its 'Back to the 1940s' event, this weekend.

Eden Camp: 'Back to the 1940s' weekend brings wartime era to life

National Coal Mining Museum Secures £20,000 in funding to enhance educational and family resources

Ad Feature National Coal Mining Museum strikes gold with £20k funding boost

Santa meeting children underground at NCMME

Ad Feature Gift A Child A Festive Experience at the National Coal Mining Museum

Grimethorpe Colliery Band to play concert at National Coal Mining Museum

Ad Feature Grimethorpe Colliery Band to play at National Coal Mining Museum

84/85 – The Longest Year is now a virtual interactive 3D tour from the National Coal Mining Museum for England.

Ad Feature VIRTUAL TOUR: Miners’ strike exhibition now free 3D online experience

Young visitors enjoying the Beach at National Coal Mining Museum. Photo: JMA Photography, NCMME.

Ad Feature Dig into summer at National Coal Mining Museum

Fashion Exhibition at Cannon Hall Museum. (Pic credit: Simon Hulme)

Cannon Hall and Yorkshire Wildlife Park named among most visited in England

The VisitEngland annual survey looks at trends in visitor numbers and Yorkshire attractions Cannon Hall and Yorkshire Wildlife Park were named among the most visited in England.

Liana Jacob

Hollywood legend Marlon Brando in The Godfather

Hollywood legend Marlon Brando's 100th birthday celebrated at Yorkshire cinema

The Creative Core has agreed a deal to occupy a 1,500 sq ft unit within the historic F Mill at Dean Clough in Halifax, relocating a team of 12 from Huddersfield

Interpretation design firm The Creative Core relocates Yorkshire headquarters

German Observation Tower on south coast cliffs, Guernsey

Visit Guernsey to discover underground bunkers and WW2 history

Uppermill Brass Band will play on Sunday, June 23.

Ad Feature Brass Band Summer Series: Free weekend concerts at mining museum

Without Malice or Ill Will writer and actor Ray Castleton will perform his miner turned copper play at the National Coal Mining Museum on Friday, June 7, and Saturday, June 8.

Ad Feature PREVIEW: Without Malice or Ill Will - miners' strike play at NCMME

Rare miners’ strike chess set, created by Bill Spalding, now on display at National Coal Mining Museum for England.

Ad Feature Rare miners' strike chess set at National Coal Mining Museum

Costume from the Classics includes these screen worn outfits by David Suchet and Bette Davis in Death on the Nile.

Ad Feature Costume From The Classics brings brings silver screen to Cannon Hall

The best towns and cities for a Staycation including Liverpool

Bold As Brass competition marching to National Coal Mining Museum England

Ad Feature Bold As Brass: Bands contest to blow trumpet for mining heritage

Signatures from the 70th Anniversary event on a piece of fuselage.Picture Bruce Rollinson

The iconic bomber the Canberra's 75th birthday

Geology Rocks Returns This Weekend. Photo JMA Photography, NCMME.

Ad Feature Geology Rocks: Explore world beneath your feet at coal mining museum

Geology Rocks - a celebration of the world beneath our feet - returns to Yorkshire’s National Coal Mining Museum for England this Saturday.

Graham Walker

Geology Rocks Returns This Weekend

Explore the world beneath your feet at National Coal Mining Museum

Maps and planning documents detailing top-secret plans were donated to House on the Hill museum.

Watch: Top secret D-Day documents from Normandy found in old car boot

Middlesbrough's art and heritage assets collection includes a Lowry painting, the Bottle of Notes and the Brian Clough statue

Council rules out selling off its £32.5m art collection to plug funding gap

National Football Museum in Manchester Credit: Google

English Tourism Week: Video explores UK's top visitor attractions

A photograph from The Longest Year exhibtion, which opens today (Mar 6)

How National Museum of Mining is charting the ‘longest year’ for miners

Father Christmas at Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds

Ad Feature Father Christmas to bring joy to hearing impaired in Leeds

Yorkshire Air Museum: Former RAF nuclear bomber returns 30 years since arrival

Father Christmas at Thackray Museum of Medicine is just the family tonic for a perfect festive season

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Title: Martyn Pitt: A Life In Photography Dates: Saturday 21 October 2023 - Sunday 18 February 2024 Venue: National Coal Mining Museum for England - Exhibition Space Credit: Martyn Pitt, NCMME

Pictures show what life was like during the last years of Yorkshire's mines

Married couple Janet and John Ford, who own Tudor World, are at loggerheads with Joe Rukin, who runs Sinister Stratford ghost tours.

Turf war breaks out between Stratford-upon-Avon ghost tour guides

Taylor Swift Eras Tour: Who is Presley Cash?

The world famous locomotive, The Flying Scotsman at the National Railway Museum York as part of it's Centenary Celebration. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty. Date: 30th March 2023.

The Yorkshire attraction named amongst the best free days out

Buckingham Palace

King Charles drops major hint about future of Buckingham Palace

An exceptionally rare Chinese box and cover from the 15th century Ming period has been discovered in a dust-filled cabinet in the attic of a family home, where it had been stored and left untouched since the owner’s death in 1967.

Old tin found in attic turns out to be Chinese Ming Dynasty treasure

Two Just Stop Oil supporters were arrested at the Herbert Museum in Coventry while demanding that the government stop all new UK fossil fuel projects and calling on employees and directors of UK cultural institutions to join in civil resistance against the government’s genocidal policies.

Just Stop Oil protestors tackled to ground after storming dino exhibit

York Minster reopening in 2020 after the first Covid lockdown. PIC: James Hardisty

Tourism is vital to the region and we must shout about it - The YP says

A Cadillac at the National Motor Museum

Motoring centre offers special events

The Natural History Museum has released a list of new animal and plant species found in 2022

Scientists release list of new animals and plants found in 2022

New toilet facilities can be built at one of the district’s most popular tourist attractions, despite concerns they could be “detrimental” to a Conservation Area.

Toilet facilities to be built at Bronte Parsonage despite concerns

Founder James Hogg is pictured with a fossil of a Ichthyosaur thought to be 175 million years old

Meet the 23-year-old paelentology expert opening a new museum in Yorkshire

The Horniman Museum and Gardens in London

Museum makes 'moral' decision to return looted artefacts to Nigeria

The repurposed phone box is carefully positioned to where it was originally removed. Photo courtesy of Paul Garbutt

Village restoration project leads to a miniature phone box museum and creation o...

The new walled garden will further enhance Burnby Hall which attracts around 97,000 visitors every year. Photo Submitted

New walled garden area now open at Pocklington’s Burnby Hall attraction

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is known for its visually overwhelming size and its intricate and colorful landscape

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The cards feature unflattering portraits designed to offend the recipient

Valentines' Cards with a sour twist go on display in Whitby

The prototype Challenger 1 tank

Museum's bid to save unique tank built at Leeds factory

Women involved with the Miners strike from Yorkshire, (l-r), Carol Willis, NE, Roni Chapman, Maggie Stubbs Caroline Poland, Marilyn Haddington, and Flis Callow, Anne Scargill and Betty Cooper. Pic: Bruce Rollinson

New exhibition and film show untold stories of the miners' strike

Auxiliary Territorial Services veteran Barbara Weatherall. Mark Bickerdike Photography

Yorkshire parade celebrates 75th anniversary of D-Day landings

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