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Chris Went, Heritage & Conservation Officer, writes:  On Tuesday, 13 November Sally McDonald (Brontë Society Chair) and I met in Ha...

News Release Bronte Society expresses disappointment at Ovenden Moor windfarm decision The Brontë Society wishes to express its dis...

Helen MacEwan's book has finally been printed and the BS bookshop is now selling it. It’s advertised on the shop website under Miscell...

Jenna Ho lmes writes: Andrea Arnold’s 2011 film adaptation of Wuthering Heights will be screened in Haworth on Friday 23 November, 7....

An organised gang of stone thieves is thought to be behind a robbery in Thornton near the historic Bell Chapel, which is connected with Bro...

Laura Rocklyn writes from New York: Every time I have read the passage at the beginning of The Professor in which William Crimsworth...

Chris Went writes: Concerns have been raised that part of the grazing land at Weaver’s Hill may again be under threat of development.  The...

Professor Maddalena De Leo’s Italian novel Mai più in oscurità is now available in English.  Its title is Removing the shroud of mystery...

Laura Rocklyn writes from New York: From the moment that the yearning music swelled to fill the space and the cloaked figure began her slo...

  OVENDEN WIND FARM REPOWER THREATENS BRONTË MOORS E.On, trading as Yorkshire Wind Power Ltd, have now submitted an application for p...

29 JANUARY 2013 - Call for papers: ‘Re-Visioning the Brontës’, University of Leeds conference in conjunction with the exhibitions, ‘Wildn...

Margaret Berry writes: St James's Church in Thornton is celebrating the  400th Anniversary of  the Old Bell Chapel this year.  Followin...

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...