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Jenna Holmes announces : Outdoor puppet theatre company Frolicked will be performing a specially commissioned new show at the  Parsonage n...

Thanks, Joanne Catlow , for sending us this press release and the photos: Historic Birstall takes star role in Bronte classic It's alrea...

David and Imelda Marsden write: The filming of Wuthering Heights at Oakwell Hall is now finished. It will be shown on ITV1 in two ninety-mi...

An exhibition of new work by Swiss artist Annelies Strba will go on show at the Parsonage tomorrow, Friday 1 August. The exhibition will b...

The Parsonage Museum will celebrate its 80th anniversary by holding a free open day for local residents next Monday 4 August. The museum wil...

Ruth Battye writes : Patrick Brontë arrived in Dewsbury on 5 December 1809. To celebrate this event there will be special services in Dewsb...

See a BBC video about the portrait of Emily Brontë here.

Maddalena De Leo writes: In the first days of July just before leaving for The Netherlands on holiday I proposed that Helen MacEwan , the B...

Richard Wilcocks writes: I'm starting to feel sorry for Gordon Brown, after, I admit, a few sniggers yesterday. I travelled down to ...

Pictured here - April De Angellis Here are some publicity paragraphs from Birmingham Rep : A brand-new adaptation brings Emily Brontë's ...

Chris Routledge writes: I am the online editor of The Reader Organisation.  You may have heard of us in connection with The Reader magazine...

Arts Officer Jenna Holmes writes: A National Portrait Gallery Loan and rare poems manuscript return to Haworth for first time in nearly 150 ...

Paul Daniggelis sends this Associated Press report: PIPERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Who is Heathcliff? The name of the doomed romantic hero in Emil...

A Call for Papers from Elise Ouvrard: For more than 160 years, Jane Eyre has been the object of all sorts of readings, critiques and sequel...

On the Tuesday (10 June) of the annual June weekend of the Brontë Society, a ...

The current Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, read from his work in Haworth not so long ago. Now the next one (a good bet) will be at the West L...

This Saturday, the current President of the Brontë Society, Rebecca Fraser , chaired the Annual General Meeting for the last time. A popular...

The title of the annual lecture at 11am on Saturday was The Originality of Wuthering Heights . It was given by Heather Glen , a frequent vis...

Beryl Bainbridge started off the annual June Weekend today, talking to a large audience of Brontë Society members in the West Lane Baptist C...

Alan Bentley (pictured) writes: I am leaving the Bronte Society on the 31st May to work freelance and to develop my consultancy business. It...