New book 'Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World' out now, available from bookshops and websites. Bestselling 'Northerners: A History' available in hardback and paperback. Publisher @HarperNorthUK. Agent @andrewlownie.

Pets' corner at Platt Fields in Rusholme, Manchester, May 1959 (Guardian archive).

RT @GroomB: Durham Miners’ Gala, 1969, by Tony Ray-Jones (1941-72).

RT @GroomB: Newcastle upon Tyne, 1862-3, by Edmund John Niemann, 1813-76 (Laing Art Gallery).

RT @GroomB: In 1938 there was a Yorkshire Authors Dinner. Chaired by J.B. Priestley, 113 Yorkshire writers met at the Great Northern Hotel….

RT @GroomB: Near Masham, Wensleydale, by Anne Isabella Brooke (1916-2002), Harrogate-based painter and teacher, @KirkleesMuseums. #WomensAr….

RT @GroomB: A Lancashire Town, 1938, by Oldham-born Harold Workman (1897-1975), @GalleryOldham. Trained at Manchester School of Art. #North….

RT @GroomB: Moss Side, Manchester, 1972, by Daniel Meadows.

RT @GroomB: Cricket match today at Bamburgh.

RT @GroomB: Three big moments that have made Manchester what it is today. My interview about 'Made in Manchester' last June with @RobParso….

Hebden Bridge, west Yorkshire, photo by Alice Longstaff, 1907-92 (@PennineHeritage).

Medieval toilet and jet die used to predict the future among findings by archaeologists at Auckland Castle, County Durham.

Walker: why I kick down Peak District stone stacks.

Brian Cox: 'I didn't think I could be an astronomer from Oldham'.

RT @PennineThe: By the late 1970’s Peter Brook had established a considerable collector base and a reputation for atmospheric Pennine snow….

I'll be at Stockport Historical Society with 'Manchester and Stockport Portraits: fascinating figures from the region's past', on Fri Sept 19th 7.30pm. Stockport Sunday School, Nangreave Road (next to Aquinas College). (Pic: Crowther Street, by L.S. Lowry) Visitors £2.50.

Keswick, Lake District, as in the 1960s, painting by Trevor Mitchell. #NorthernArt

Bomb damage to Stretford Children's Library, 1941 (@TraffordArchive).

RT @FXMC1957: PHOTO OF THE DAY. The grave of Eleanor Rigby in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool, where John Lennon &….

RT @GroomB: Spennymoor Evening, by County Durham artist Eric Thompson.

RT @GroomB: Yates's Wine Lodge, Liverpool V, 1968, by German photographer Candida Höfer.