There’s a trend for thematic snacks in theatre cafes – pizza for a Neapolitan revival, beignets for a play about New Orleans, soda bread at an Irish classic. The Hampstead Theatre has resisted a meal ...
A penguin chick has been named after headscarf revolutionary Lillian Bilocca. Ms Bilocca, from Hull, spearheaded the Headscarf Revolutionaries, who campaigned for improved safety in the fishing ...
Read our review of *Reykjavik*, directed by Emily Burns, now in performances at the Hampstead Theatre to 23 November. Read more theatre reviews on LondonTheatre.co.uk.
"Dear Jeff, my grandparents on my mother's side, aunt and other extended members of the Hooper family, all lived in Milford Haven. In researching the ancestry of the Hooper side of my family, I have ...
Richard Bean's dark comedy considers the aftermath of the sinking of a Hull trawler on the eve of the fishing industry's decimation ...
Sunk without trace… John Vincent reports on the Yorkshire trawler Pharos, which met its mysterious fate in icy waters off the ...
Robb Robinson, maritime historian at Hull University said: "The Farnella is one of a long line of trawlers to serve in wartime and has had an amazing history since, it really is unique." ...
Lesley Bellew shares 15 recommendations for small ship cruising with limited passenger numbers, from Indonesia to the ...
Richard Bean’s new play is part workplace drama part folkloric storytelling – but so much better than that sounds ...
Claxton is preparing for the tradition of the ‘widows walk’, in which he visits every family on foot and is proffered innumerable cups of tea (don’t ask to use the bathroom of a woman you’ve made a ...
Hull-born, he explored below-decks trawler life in 2003’s Under the Whaleback, but here opens on company director Donald Claxton (John Hollingworth)), first of his family to go to university ...
A trawler has gone down off the coast of Iceland ... does know the gut-quaking shame of the ‘Widows’ Walk’, a Hull tradition in which a boat owner visits each widow in turn on foot to ...