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A page from the new Wuthering Heights graphic novel As part of a season of events to paint Haworth's literary sisters in a whole new lig...

Richard Wilcocks writes: Catching up on the details of the ‘other’ news after flying back to England, I see that last Wednesday’s Guardian c...

Maddalena de Leo writes: I chose to spend my holidays in August this year to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Mozart’s ...

Last Saturday's celebrations were, by any measure, a great success. The sun shined on the front lawn most of the time, and the rain fell...

Latest information from the BFI - the names of the cast members who will be on stage on 16 September in London have not been announced, so w...

Ruth Wilson as Jane and Cosima Littlewood as Adele are shown here in a break from filming at Haddon Hall in the Peak District. Photo courtes...

7 Millionth Visitor Day – Saturday 29 July Drop in art and craft activity taking place throughout day – education room or meadow 10.30am - ...

Most of what follows here is based on a press release sent out last Friday. It gives an outline of my opinions on how classic literature is ...

Parsonage Museum director Alan Bentley is seen here with retired toxicologist Derek Stringer and his wife Nancy, from Bowness-on-Windermere,...

Sample of Anne's hair The Cornelia Parker Exhibition launches the Brontë Contemporary Arts Programme. An ambitious project to establish ...

A BBC FOUR news release, received yesterday, reveals the following: Wide Sargasso Sea adapted for BBC FOUR this Autumn Rafe Spall, Rebecca ...

Sant’Agata dei Goti is a charming medieval village in Campania, a region of Southern Italy where the Sannio Film Festival is held every ye...

Every year, members of the Brontë Society gather in Haworth in the first week of June for a series of entertainments and events. This selec...

Prof. Franca Gollini Tiezzi reports on a recent meeting of the Italian Section: On 27th May 2006 we met in Vignola at the Osteria dell...

Viewers of BBC2’s People’s Museum programme voted in their hundreds on 30 May to ensure that an early ‘little book’ written by Char...

Several people have been in contact recently saying that they can see only the articles and pictures on their screens - not the link...

Richard Wilcocks writes: On Friday 19 May Kirklees Community History and Kirklees Tourism launched the Shirley Country Guide . To be strict...

This obituary is from The Times online for 18 May: Clare Boylan April 21, 1948 - May 16, 2006 Irish author who achieved wide acclaim with Em...

It happened on Sunday 14 May. It started at St Peter's Church in Birstall and ended at Rydings, once the home of Ellen Nussey. Margaret ...

One of the earliest known books written by one of the Brontë sisters will feature in a BBC2 programme which has gathered together some of t...