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Libby Sternberg writes: To celebrate the fact that my Sloane Hall is finally available for pre-order on amazon and  bn.com , I'm run...

Blog readers' opinions are welcome on the issue of whether the graveyard at St Mary's church in Scarborough which contains the grave...

The hammer has descended, and the letter from Charlotte Brontë to William Smith Williams, dated October 18, 1848 – is now on its way from th...

Richard Wilcocks writes: The final event of the June weekend was on the morning of Tuesday 8 June in Thornton, on the edge of Bradford, wh...

Boris Skilet writes: To end activities on Saturday people assembled in the Baptist church in anticipation of hearing Elaine Showalter , ...

Heidi Büchner writes:  It was with the maximum interest that I was privileged to listen at the West Lane Baptist Church to L...

The glimpses continue, and will not necessarily appear in chronological order - and readers may have to wait for the reportage... Robert...

 Richard Wilcocks writes: It was nearly ten o'clock, a warm dusk, when the turn of my group came for a very special performance. Hushe...

Friday evening, the musical evening - later: Parsonage Director Andrew Macarthy gave praise where it was due, to the people without whom ...

Friday, early evening: Most of the members have arrived, and the temperature is high. Smiles are on faces, sweat on brows. What are they an...

A n  exhibition of paintings,  Wearer Unknown , by artist  Victoria Brookland  has opened at the    Parsonage  as part of the museum’s cont...

From Director Andrew Macarthy: The Brontë Parsonage Museum is gearing up for a busy week of activities in the forthcoming half-term hol...

For the first time in over 160 years the Brontë family’s cabinet piano is to be heard again at their former home in Haworth. This historic o...

Thanks to Paul Danigellis for sending this, from the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/bronte-sisters-action-fig_n_...

Thanks to Maddalena De Leo , some of the lectures given at the Brontë Society's York Conference last year are now on YouTube. Try this ...

Imelda and David Marsden write: On the Saturday of the annual June weekend (5th) there will be a ghost hunt at the Black Bull, Haworth'...

The Brontë Parsonage will be opening its doors for a series of very special ‘behind the scenes’ tours on the 18th, 19th and 26th May, 7.00pm...

  Click on the article to enlarge Helen McEwan writes: The weekly staff newspaper of the European Commission (where I work as a tra...

An exhibition of poems by writer in residence  Katrina Naomi  has gone on display at the  Parsonage   until 31 May. The poems are the resul...

Novelist, writer and president of English PEN, Lisa Appignanesi will be visiting Haworth to speak about her book Mad, Bad & Sad: A Histo...