Hull’s Maritime Past Points Way to Tourist Future
Hull’s historic Spurn Lightship has returned to the city’s waterfront following a 14-month restoration in the latest stage of a multi-million-pound…
Humber Street Sesh 2024, Hull
The Humber Street Sesh celebrates its 11th anniversary in August 2024. This festival held in the Hull Marina is for the people by the people, and provides a stage for emerging musicians and artists…
Hull Lights Up Maritime City Project
Hull city centre is set to light-up during a spectacular three-day event celebrating the city’s rich seafaring heritage this month – while predicting the weather will never be the same…
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
The National Portrait Gallery in London, will stage the first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty years, between February 27 and June 28…
Freedom Festival Hull 2024, Yorkshire
Held in late August to early September, the Freedom Festival Hull is the flagship event in the former UK City of Culture’s festival calendar. Now in its 16th year and…
Freedom Festival Reigns in East Yorkshire
Hull’s flagship cultural event, Freedom Festival, celebrates one of the city’s most famous sons, anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce, and 2019…
Discover a Historic European Union… in Hull
Visitors to the UK’s 2017 City of Culture can turn the clock back to the heyday of European trade, forged between seafaring nations centuries ago, on a new walking tour…
Hull Shares Northern Lights Stories
Urban Legends: Northern Lights, a newly commissioned outdoor event in Hull, is set to illuminate the winter nights later this month as moving animations and…
Thursday Street Food Night in Hull
Fresh from its UK City of Culture success of 2017, Hull is currently not only seeing major regeneration and a big boost in visitors, but also the creation of a…
New Conference and Leisure Complex for Hull
A new, £36m music and conference centre is set to open this summer as Hull continues to build on its 2017 City of Culture success – a title it retains until the end of 2020. Yorkshire’s maritime…
Hull Celebrates Hanseatic League
From medieval spinning and weaving, to jester japes and even a ‘Rat Circus’, Hull will be turning the clock back to the 14th century in May to celebrate the heyday…
Aviation-themed Café Prepares for Take-off in Beverley
A medieval minster town aims to turn the clock back to the glamorous heyday of air travel with a new vintage café set to take off in the East Yorkshire town of Beverley…
Hull: a Surprising City of Culture
When Hull was chosen to be the UK’s latest city of culture a few pairs of eyebrows were raised – mine for one. I had spent three years in the…
10 Reasons to Keep an Eye on Hull in 2018
It has been an amazing year for Hull, packed with spectacular events, ground-breaking art and stunning performances. But it’s not over yet by a long stretch. Hull has thrown open…
