Steel City 50: Inside Sheffield’s Oldest Beer Festival at 50

Fifty years of volunteers pouring pints on an artificial island built for a medieval corn mill, and Sheffield still turns out for it every October. Sheffield has plenty of beer festivals now. Craft breweries have...

North Pennines Stargazing Festival: The Night Train to England’s Darkest Skies

The North Pennines is officially the darkest mainland National Landscape in England, and for two weeks every autumn it turns that darkness into the point of the visit rather than something to work around. Most...

Yorkshire Christmas Markets 2026: Dates, Locations and What to Expect

Yorkshire Christmas markets are not one event repeated ten times. The Piece Hall's Georgian courtyard, York's Yorkshire-made traders, Beverley's single mad Sunday, Whitby's coastal fireworks and Grassington in Victorian dress prove it. Ask someone what...

THOR’S on ICE: York’s City-Centre Rink Returns After 16 Years

A York ice rink is finally back in the city centre this winter, after a 16-year gap. York gets a Christmas market every year, a big wheel some winters, and a run of festive...

Mrs Doubtfire Leeds: First Visit, Three Weeks, 7 Stops Nearby

Mrs Doubtfire Leeds dates are confirmed, and it's the first time the musical has come to the city. The West End show based on the 1993 Robin Williams film takes over Leeds Grand Theatre...

Yorkshire Family Events 2026: 7 Autumn and Christmas Days Out

From a free sheep fair in Wensleydale to a Dickensian Christmas at Castle Howard, here is what is actually worth putting in the diary this autumn and winter.7 Yorkshire Family Events Most people's Yorkshire Christmas...

Halloween Events Yorkshire 2026: 5 Nights Worth Leaving the House For

Skip the pumpkin patch. These five Halloween events in Yorkshire are the ones actually worth booking. Region: Yorkshire (South Yorkshire, York, West Yorkshire)Best for: Families, couples, anyone bored of the same scare-maze roundup every OctoberGetting...

WILD Drone Show at Wentworth Woodhouse: Everything to Know for 2026

Hundreds of drones forming giant animals over the largest private house in Britain, and how to make a whole weekend of it. Most people who've heard of Wentworth Woodhouse know it as the stately home...