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In Pictures: The power of No Redemption at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield

Photographer Keith Pattison depicts a community's defence of their way of life during the miners' strikes of 1984 and 1985 in a visually powerful exhibition in Yorkshire.

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Longlist for Art Fund Prize Museum of the Year 2012 announced

Some of the major new venues around the country - including Bristol's M Shed, the Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow, Margate's Turner Contemporary and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery - are named on the longlist for the £100,000 prize.

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The FA Cup, Connect 4, Wombles and Bee Gees star in Silver 70s at Leeds City Museum

Travel back in time as Leeds celebrates the decade of the Raleigh Chopper, David Bowie, the Silver Jubilee and an FA Cup win for Leeds United.

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Wirral artist Leo Fitzmaurice wins Northern Art Prize 2012 and £16,500 at Leeds Art Gallery

Chosen from an exhibiting shortlist of four, the artist who presented a makeshift slideshow of shots taken on his mobile phone wins the annual Northern Art Prize.

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Harrogate for Health and Happiness: A 20th Century Spa Town at the Pump Room Museum

The history of Harrogate as a spa town in the 20th century is explored via archive film, photographs, objects and memories in a fascinating new exhibition at the Royal Pump Rooms.

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David Hockney: A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy

David Hockney's love of the English landscape and nature - particularly in his native Yorkshire - has resulted in a vast, vivid show at London's Royal Academy of Arts. Richard Moss enjoys an......

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Sheffield Hallam University and Museums Sheffield put metalwork online in Objects in 3D

Researchers and curators have teamed up for an innovative new online adventure shedding new light on the metalwork masterpieces Sheffield is famous for.

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"Obsessive, mordant and morbid" Glamourie sends 26 artists to Project Space Leeds

Handmade hurdy-gurdy and giant cardboard heads as 26 contemporary British artists are brought together in a new exhibition at Project Space Leeds.

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Carole Griffiths and Michael Stewart get together for Couples show at South Square

The artist and writer have teamed up for a mixed media exhibition in sculpture and text to explore the interdependence of everyday couples using everyday objects.

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Yorkshire Museum launches final appeal to save Iron Age Tadcaster Torc

The Yorkshire Museums Trust is hoping 5,000 members of the public will donate £5 each as it bids to keep the first Iron Age gold torc to be found in the county in Yorkshire.

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Stella Vine sells special Brontë sisters portrait to help save Haworth church roof

Painter Stella Vine has stepped in to try and revive the fortunes of the church in Haworth, Yorkshire where Charlotte and Emily Brontë are buried.

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Northern Art Prize 2011 exhibition rewards time and effort at Leeds City Art Gallery

Elizabeth Hughes finds a lesson in avoiding immediacy in Leeds, where work by the four finalists hoping to win the Northern Art Prize make for an intriguing exhibition.

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Extensive service for Vulcan Bomber ahead of busy Diamond Jubilee Year

Ahead of a busy 2012 including a series of Diamond Jubilee flights, the last flying Vulcan Bomber has begun a thorough winter service.

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Zoe Beloff dusts off Mutt and Jeff for look at early moving image at Site Gallery

Current Sheffield show The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff brings the world's longest running comic strip into focus with management science and Duchamp.

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Amateur archaeologists discover 7th century building within Yorkshire Dales National Park

Radiocarbon tests have revealed that a two-room stone building discovered in the Ribblesdale area dates from the historically mysterious "Dark Ages".

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