There weren't that many names on Workington's petition for Queen Victoria's great bash. But organisers glued together enough sheets of paper to find a place in history
The poet Keats found Carlisle so boring that he said: "The whole art of yawning might have been learned there." English Heritage and Alan Sykes disagree
New evidence suggests that Donald Campbell's delicate supercraft may have collided with a bird on a practice run, damaging her vital, aerodynamic shape.
Thespians always in need of the limelight, and the funding it can bring, find an unexpected ally in a crime writer with a penchant for careful research. Emeritus Guardian colleague David Ward tells the story.
The University of Cumbria was born on the 1 August, 2007, incorporating the old Cumbria Institute of Arts, St Martin's College and the Carlisle campuses of the University of Central Lancashire
1 May 2007:
The University of Cumbria was formed on 1st August 2007, from an amalgamation of St Martin's College, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, and the Cumbrian campuses of the University of Central Lancashire.