Archived blog posts

Parsonage Press Release: Costumes from the recent film adaptation of  Jane Eyre , starring Mia Wasikowska (in the photo), Michael Fassb...

The Brontë Society is very disappointed with the decision to grant planning permission to Banks Renewables for a 60m wind mast on Thornto...

Interest in the Bronte Society's opposition to the proposed Thornton Moor wind mast escalated last week with extensive coverage in th...

There's a photo shoot at 11 am today at Roe Head School (in the photo, now renamed Holly Bank) in Mirfield organised by the Reporter...

Ian M. Emberson writes: I have been to many art exhibitions, but this one is unique in having magnifying glasses dangling beside the dr...

On BBC Radio 4 next Tuesday 13 March at 11.30am, there will be a half hour programme about the cabinet piano and music at the Parsonage, pr...

Maddalena De Leo send us news of the recent publication in Italian of her translation of The Secret. She also mentions how happy she is t...

Sue Lonoff writes: How good was Charlotte Brontë’s French in 'L’Ingratitude'?  As we know, it is a very early devoir, written a mo...

This is the link to the full text of Charlotte Brontë's homework in The London Review of Books . Perhaps it should be published in the ...

Christa Ackroyd, Brontë Society member and presenter on BBC TV Look North, is to give a talk about the Brontës at Hartshead Church on S...

A Horror of Great Darkness: Gothic from the Brontës to Twilight  was the main title for yesterday's one day conference for AS and A2 ...

Richard Wilcocks writes: Good news! At the cabinet meeting at Huddersfield Town Hall yesterday afternoon it was recommended that the Red H...

The Brontë Parsonage re-opens today following a hectic month of activity including maintenance work, cleaning, conservation and developme...

Richard Wilcocks writes: The Area Committee met yesterday evening in Cleckheaton Town Hall, and received a deputation of people who were d...

A public meeting of the Spen Valley Area Committee of Kirklees Council is scheduled for this Tuesday (31 January) in the Cleckheaton Town H...

ISM writes We must protect the views the Brontës loved was the headline to an article which appeared in last Saturday’s (21 January)  Te...

Last week, Kirklees Council made public its budget proposals.  In addition to the recently publicised reduction in the opening times ...

Stella Vine is considered by some to be a ‘controversial’ artist because her portraits are of figures ranging from model Kate Moss to...

Colin Randall (ex-Daily Telegraph, contributor to Abu Dhabi's The National, lives in France) has written a full and clear account of t...