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Robert Barnard 1936 - 2013 Bob died in his sleep yesterday at the Grove Court Nursing Home in Leeds, after weakening frighteningly...

The Brontës and the Railways - Professor Ann Sumner 2pm - Friday 20 September - The Barn, Red House Professor Ann Sumner took up the...

Marina Saegerman writes:  A woman with a Brontë mission : tracing the Irish roots of Arthur Bell Nicholls in Banagher, Ireland Ever...

Maddalena de Leo writes: On 5 August I went to England on a new Brontë pilgrimage, this time not in Haworth but in London and Wales. First...

Click here to read the review of this in Dancing Review It's on in London now. We'd love to read your review (or your comments) ...

IMS writes: I joined a small group of Brontë Society members on a sunny afternoon at East Riddlesden Hall, a seventeenth century manor ho...

Thanks, Paul Daniggelis, for sending us this link: http://www.okgazette.com/ oklahoma/article-18966-the- bront%C3%AB-sist.html   The...

‘”The old latticed windows, the stone porch, the walls, the roof, the chimney-stacks, were rich in crayon touches and sepia lights and shad...

IMS writes: After a warm and sunny weekend, full of interesting events, where friendships were renewed and new ones made, members travelle...

This year's annual lecture was given not by an academic but by an enthusiastic local historian - Steve Wood . It was accompanied by a f...

The weather was unbelievably warm and windless. All the events should be held out in the open - possibly in the meadow behind the Parsonage...

The forgotten Brontë sibling will get his time in the spotlight on Friday with a performance of award-winning play The Brontë Boy in the B...

Sally McDonald, Chairman of Brontë Society Council, writes:   The new plaque When planning the Spring Walk this year it was agreed ...

On 21April, 2013, the anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Brontё,  the literary association Gli Occhi di Argo  and the publisher ALBUSe...

A planning application for a small wind turbine at Bodkin Lane, Oxenhope has been refused by Bradford MDC.  Three reasons are given, the ...

Yesterday, two hundred (or was it more?) people crowded into the Old Schoolroom opposite the Parsonage to eat from a sumptuous buffet, dr...

Richard Wilcocks reports: The Re-Visioning the Brontës Conference took place on 29 January in The Brotherton Room, which holds about fift...