Made in EnglandYou are in: Stoke & Staffordshire > Made In England Made in England is a joint partnership with the Arts Council exploring how art and creativity is inspired by England... especially Staffordshire!  We remember the Victorian creator of "John Halifax, Gentleman" from Stoke-on-Trent... Find out more about Made in England - read poems and stories plus find out how to get creative!  Meredith Thompson tells us about the orchestra that lives in Lichfield Cathedral  Every three years the Lichfield Mystery Plays take place in the town square - they're back for 2009!  From The Beatles, the Sex Pistols to Dire Straits, a new book brings you Burton's history of Rock!  The great man of letters, Dr Samuel Johnson, best known for his ‘Dictionary of the English Language’  All around us in Staffordshire are works of art; and you've been sending us your photos of them...  See the image gallery of photos of your 'special' Staffordshire churches  Combining dark comedy and gritty realism, film director Shane Meadows is 'Staffordshire's Scorsese'  Everything you ever needed to know about the Stoke-born star  Arnold Bennett was a Potteries author who wrote about his home town extensively.  One of the great - and now largely forgotten - books of working class life in the Potteries  A look at the poetess dubbed the ‘Swan of Lichfield’ who died 200 years ago on March 25th 1809  Have you ever thought that someone would actually WANT to move to Stoke-on-Trent?  Roger Butters' love of Shakespeare is central to his first book about a Clouseau-like secret agent.  Izaak Walton, author of fishing book The Compleat Angler, is still an inspiration 400 years on.  North Staffordshire novelist Phil Emery has written a spooky fantasy book set right here! You've been making dozens of short films (some only a minute long!) Check them out  Since its beginnings, Ken Brown has been involved with the Brewhouse Arts Centre in Burton.  Gig Junkie takes photographs in all the local rock clubs. Now you can check out her work in a book  A Staffs Uni graduate film-maker has made a short feature about England's best known highwayman  The cartoonist from Stafford who became nationally famous for his comic cartoon strips  Local author Michael Eardley's advice to unpublished authors about how to distribute their work.  Judy O'Brien tells us more about the man dubbed 'the Lowry of the Potteries'.  Ian Hughes turns scraps of metal into stunning scale models of engineering classics. You are in: Stoke & Staffordshire > Made In England |
