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New Year is a time for lists, resolutions and honours; so reflecting on last year and thinking about what highlights lie ahead, we’ve come up with an alternative Honours list. To get you thinking about what catches attention, here are some events that proved firm favourites for the team and media in 2023…

New Year is a time for lists, resolutions and honours; so reflecting on last year and thinking about what highlights lie ahead, we’ve come up with an alternative Honours list. To get you thinking about what catches attention, here are some events that proved firm favourites for the team and media in 2022…

New Year is a time for lists, resolutions and honours; so reflecting on last year and thinking about what highlights lie ahead, we’ve come up with an alternative Honours list. To get you thinking about what catches attention, here are some events that proved firm favourites for the team and media in 2021...

Did you know that 2020 is the Year of the Nurse and Midwife? That it is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the first Nightingale Nurse – one Miss Florence Nightingale, who helped set the bar for creating a professional nursing service. Her achievements were remarkable but of course she didn’t work alone; here’s a round up of some of the stories our festival community has connected to Florence and other nursing nightingales – past and present, we thank you all.

Next week the powerful 'Poppies: Weeping Window' will cascade down the side of the stunning Middleport Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent. A place close to my heart as the venue of the first Heritage Open Days launch I attended, and just recently I got to revisit it for the launch of the brilliant Heritage Network for Stoke-on-Trent . HODs is based on communities working together and we're always looking for new and better ways to do so, so I asked Andy Perkin from the Heritage Network to tell us how it works there. Over to you Andy...