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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 governments 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
A new exhibition at the National Coal Mining Museum is highlighting the crucial role women played during the miners’ strike, at the same time as a new film has been made to mark the 35th anniversary of the end of the dispute.

Auxiliary Territorial Services veteran Barbara Weatherall. Mark Bickerdike Photography

Yorkshire parade celebrates 75th anniversary of D-Day landings

Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery opening with Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon, 1964.

Returning Royal

The Museum, Sheffield.

Pub of the week: The Museum, Sheffield

Police lead several men away from the city centre

Pubs forced to close after fight in Sheffield city centre

Jennifer Smith with the spoon

Welcome home for the spoon with a tale to tell

Band member and cornet player, Keith Britcliffe, in the museum.
PIC: Lorne Campbell/Guzelian

Museum honours record-breaking success of world-famous Black Dyke Band

The Nationaql Coal Mining Museum for England in Overton, near Wakefield.

Museum that is home to a rich seam of history

In the picture

Burnby Hall.

Take Five... Gorgeous Yorkshire homes

Picture: National Coal Mining Museum for England

Mining for memories of days when coal was king

Eureka! in Halifax

Yorkshire museum '˜deserves Government funding'
HALIFAX MP Holly Lynch has called on the Government to review its rules on museum funding which see the pioneering Eureka! miss out.

The best of the Arts Council Collection arrives in Yorkshire

Ian Reed the Director of the Yorkshire Air Museum, pictured with Avro 504 Biplane. Picture by Simon Hulme

First World War plane ready for Battle of the Somme commemorations

Chris Taylor from Baildon hangs his photo of himself dressed as Darth Vader and work colleagues as other Star Wars characters amongst other artworks inspired by the film francise. Picture: Bruce Rollinson

Star Wars fans use the artistic force to herald film event of the year

September 24: Questions over devolution deal

1978: Carlisle Upperby Depot with Evening Star.

40 years of the National Rail Museum

Wikipedia has been targeted by 'rogue editors'

Oh no! Now we can’t even believe Wikipedia

Christine McSweeney from Cosprop with the exhibits at the new exhibition of costumes from the ITV drama Downton Abbey

Video: So, exactly where IS Downton Abbey?

The National Media Museum in Bradford

Boost for Yorkshire film fans as Bradford IMAX screen due for makeover

Bronte Society president calls on Haworth residents to take on leadership roles

Bronte Society president Bonnie Greer outside the Parsonage in Haworth. Picture by Tony Johnson

New ideas for Haworth village to ‘set it buzzing’

Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library, looking at the first edition copy of the ancient mining manual De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola written over 450 years ago.

Medieval mining manual on show at museum

The decorated tram which attracted recruts for The Leeds Pals in the First World War.

Museum to provide showcase for special war event

Sarah King, curator of Natural Sciences at the Yorkshire Museum in York, with the giant fossil of an Ichtysaur

Video: Secrets of Yorkshire’s sea monsters

Bradford's National Media Museum

Bradford museum’s future looks safer following funding deal

Bronte Society president defends leadership of literary group

Museum’s first birthday marks boom time for Barnsley tourism

Volunteers expected to run museum

Much ado about the Bard at ‘Stratford on Craven’

Demand growth encourages positive outlook

Derek Searle, 74, great grandson of William Wilkinson, with Margaret Shaw, Project Manager for Malton Museum

How curlers from Yorkshire swept all before them on international stage

Council to help museum that time forgot

Museum puts Chinese art on display

Ruth Leach, organiser of Network Rail's 'Lines in the Landscape' photographic competition at the National Railway Museum in York

Museum hosts showcase of power and glory of rail lines

The former Traditional Heritage Museum

Museum’s artefacts given new life across region

Back to the future as hall set to rediscover Edwardian look

Museum buys Leigh archive

Museum ‘launches’ boat that took passengers to Titanic

Ray Harryhausen pledged his collection of 20,000 film artefacts to the Media Museum in Bradford.

Video: Animation giant who brought monsters to life