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What Are My Top 5 Humber Street Sesh Acts?
Boss of the Sesh Mak gives us his view on the most interesting bands at the 2025 Humber Street bash.
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What Is The Role Of A Solicitor In A Law Firm?
You may think you have a handle on this job role but Lucy, of Wilkin Chapman Rollits, lays out exactly what’s involved.
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How Was Hull Responsible For Take That?
So, apparently it was all our fault. Writer and boy band aficionado @nickquantrill.bsky.social outlines where and why this travesty took place.
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Why Did A Weeping Woman In White Get Hounded Out Of Hull In 1417?
This is exactly the sort of mystery our lachrymose female correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social loves to get his teeth into.
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On the latest CuriosityCast, get your laughing gear around this chat between Burnsy and Gary Jennison for all the detail surrounding Hull Comedy Festival 2025.
Available on our website or your favoured podcast supplier: curiosityhull.co.uk/curiositycast-…
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What Happened To The Hull Museum Which Never Opened?
Well, this looks like it would have been ace. Our lost attractions correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social reports on the museum that never was.
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What Is My Favourite View In Hull?
@andytrainhull.bsky.social, of Pride In Hull, picks an unexpected but undeniably amazing view.
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What’s The Story Behind This Old Doorway In Witham?
The difference between the rest of us and our muck garths correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social is that we see an owld doorway and he sees a social history of Hull.
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Who, What, Where, When, Why & How?
Author and illustrator Ramzee takes a shot at our Big Malarkey quiz, while @typicallymai.bsky.social holds sway.
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Which Part Of Hull Is Forever Spain?
@hulltourguide.bsky.social Paul Schofield visits a memorial to the brave volunteers who fought fascism in the 1930s.
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In a podcast so fascinating Burnsy is (almost) stunned silent, Stewart Baxter talks about how everything from childhood trauma to improvised music to Spotify to the Nuremberg Trials combine in his project Bombed Buildings
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How nice to see the words National Geographic, Best of the World and Hull in the same article.
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On the new CuriosityCast:
A new publication, exhibition and series of events honouring Hull’s fish trail begins next week, so Burnsy talks all things fish with organiser Dr Jill Hewitt of the Critical Fish.
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What Is Get It Loud In Libraries?
Evie from the Astra Youth Centre in Hull tells us all about the wonderful gigs that regularly happen in libraries in the city.
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Is It True That The First Person To Fly A Spitfire Came From Hull?
@robb51.bsky.social of the @uniofhull.bsky.social heads to Russell Street to tell us all about a flying ace.
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Was King Henry VIII’s Wife Bagging Off When They Visited Hull In 1541?
This is what we want! A bit of spicy 16th Century gossip, courtesy of our royal affairs correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social. Off with his head!
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Who Was Britain’s First Black Professional Sports Coach?
Sports writer @collinstony.bsky.social visits Airlie Street to discuss a Hull legend who revolutionised rugby.
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Who, What, Where, When, Why & How?
Author of Inkbound (and former Hull Librarian!) @prleathley.bsky.social chances her arm in our Big Malarkey quiz, hosted by @typicallymai.bsky.social
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On our podcast this week: As the John Godber Company have two new plays hitting the area this month, Burnsy gets the lowdown on both and much more from Liz Godber
Listen on our website or your preferred podcast supplier: curiosityhull.co.uk/curiositycas...
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Which Cinema Was Destroyed In The Last Bombing Raid On Hull?
@hulltourguide.bsky.social Paul Schofield heads back to his beloved East Hull to relay the tragic tale of the final local victims of WW2.
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Why Is A Hull Creative Company Featuring In Bradford’s City of Culture Programme?
Our cultural exchange correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social reports on an outfit from over here doing very well over there.
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Which Is Our Favourite Local Folly?
Our purposeless structures correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social uses a ‘research’ trip to Risby as an excuse to eat cake. Typical.
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What Is The Role Of A Document Production Specialist?
Catherine, of solicitors Wilkin, Chapman Rollits, outlines what her job entails, and it sounds like the place would collapse without her.
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Did Hull Once Have Its Own Circus?
Another story from the ‘Well I Never Knew That!’ file from our bygone entertainment correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social
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Who Is Douglas Dunn?
Hull poet and bon vivant @deanwilson.bsky.social heads just off Bev Road to outline why Terry Street holds a unique place in the poetic pantheon.
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Which Punk Anthem Was Written On A Bench On Cottingham Road?
Author and aging Britpopper @nickquantrill.bsky.social goes the Whole Wide World to end up on a (probably) different bench to Eric Goulden.
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What Are My Top 5 Films?
Bex is the general manager at Artlink and a movie fan. Here are her five favourite flicks.
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What’s Happening With The Derelict Land Next To The River Hull?
The East bank of the river has long been a mess, but now you have your chance to say how it’s put right, reports our dilapidated riverside correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social
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What Is My Favourite Street In Hull?
Ex top politician turned novelist Alan Johnson takes a trip back to a familiar and undeniably gorgeous thoroughfare.
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Why Is There A Splash Boat In East Park?
We’ve all enjoyed a proper soaking and a scare in it, but @hulltourguide.bsky.social Paul Schofield explains why the greatest thrill ride in Hull exists.
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