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News Release: New Charlotte Brontë letter at Parsonage Museum betrays  her sympathy for poor governesses. An important le...

Red House and Gardens in Gomersal is holding at an evening drinks reception on Wednesday July 11 for people interested in forming a Frien...

Bestselling novelist Victoria Hislop will be visiting Haworth next week to read from and discuss her work and latest novel, The...

At some point during late summer or early autumn, E.ON, the company which operates the wind farm on Ovenden Moor, will submit a planning ...

News Release: Brontë Museum Director to take up new role in Bradford It has been announced that Director at the Brontë Parsonage ...

IMS writes: ‘ It was a fine Autumn morning; the early sun shone serenely on embrowned groves and still green fields: I lo...

On Sunday afternoon a minibus transported Brontë Society members to Guiseley Parish Church where nearly two hundred year...

A Walk to Oxenhope and Marshlands Margaret Berry writes: Three weeks ago, sunshine and blue skies (!!!) greeted Brontë Society mem...

Richard Wilcocks writes: A really impressive panel was lined up for us on the Saturday evening (9 June) of the AGM weekend – from left...

Richard Wilcocks writes: Thanks to the member (didn't catch your name, sorry) who handed me the address of this video on YouTube . It ...

At the AGM, it was revealed that the Parsonage Director, Andrew McCarthy, will be leaving to take up a new post - with the Bradford-based A...

The annual June Weekend began on Friday with a well-attended lecture in the Baptist Centre given by eminent Dickens biographer Professor Mi...

Plans to build a set of four enormous wind turbines in Norfolk have been rejected in a recent High Court ruling. A legal precedent could ...

Photo from Welcome to Yorkshire My first Chelsea and I get gold, it doesn't get much better than this! I'm so proud of what ...

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...