Media library

The STACK Lincoln venue, which opened in 2024.

The STACK venue at Seaburn, near Sunderland, which has attracted more than 2.5m visitors since it opened in 2020.

Objects on display include a wine bottle from the set of celebrated bucolic British crime drama Midsomer Murders, on loan from screenwriter and playwright Lisa Holdsworth who has also worked on hit shows including Call the Midwife and Fat Friends. Her contributions also include original scripts from her first paid writing job, signed by Liza Tarbuck and famed presenting duo Ant and Dec.

Objects on display include a wine bottle from the set of celebrated bucolic British crime drama Midsomer Murders, on loan from screenwriter and playwright Lisa Holdsworth who has also worked on hit shows including Call the Midwife and Fat Friends. Her contributions also include original scripts from her first paid writing job, signed by Liza Tarbuck and famed presenting duo Ant and Dec.

Library tickets, ink pots, writing implements and a typewriter used by Yorkshire Post sports journalist John Wyatt also feature in the exhibition, which is made up of loans from contributing authors alongside objects taken from the Leeds Museums and Galleries collection which have specific connections to their works.

Curator Patrick Bourne with a wine bottle from the set of celebrated bucolic British crime drama Midsomer Murders, on loan from screenwriter and playwright Lisa Holdsworth who has also worked on hit shows including Call the Midwife and Fat Friends.

Curator Patrick Bourne with a wine bottle from the set of celebrated bucolic British crime drama Midsomer Murders, on loan from screenwriter and playwright Lisa Holdsworth who has also worked on hit shows including Call the Midwife and Fat Friends.

Curator Patrick Bourne with some of the exhibits which feature in Literature in Leeds at Kirkstall’s Abbey House Museum, which showcases objects, memorabilia and personal stories which have inspired a generation of modern-day writers to create works enjoyed by audiences around the world.

Curator Patrick Bourne with some of the exhibits which feature in Literature in Leeds at Kirkstall’s Abbey House Museum, which showcases objects, memorabilia and personal stories which have inspired a generation of modern-day writers to create works enjoyed by audiences around the world.

Curator Patrick Bourne with some of the exhibits which feature in Literature in Leeds at Kirkstall’s Abbey House Museum, which showcases objects, memorabilia and personal stories which have inspired a generation of modern-day writers to create works enjoyed by audiences around the world.

Curator Patrick Bourne with a dress created as part of theatre show and exhibition Corseted, which centred around the life and work of radical Leeds suffragist Alice Cliff Scatcherd. The dress is based on one worn by Alice when she opened the Morley Friends Adult School in 1894 and sits alongside objects chosen by writer and performer, Becky Cherriman, whose own work touches on themes such as women’s history and industrial working conditions.

Curator Patrick Bourne with a dress created as part of theatre show and exhibition Corseted, which centred around the life and work of radical Leeds suffragist Alice Cliff Scatcherd. The dress is based on one worn by Alice when she opened the Morley Friends Adult School in 1894 and sits alongside objects chosen by writer and performer, Becky Cherriman, whose own work touches on themes such as women’s history and industrial working conditions.