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Celebrating the study of literature at our Ambleside campus, in the inspirational literary landscape of the English Lake District.
Thinking about a new career direction or undertaking PG study in the field of literature & cultural studies? Find out more about our MA Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District via our course webpage: cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/…
Next Monday (28th) is Beatrix Potter's Birthday, why not celebrate by booking this Friday or Saturday to play the Escape Box Experience 'Beatrix Potter's Missing Paper'? Book here-…y-and-museum-centre.arttickets.org.uk/armitt-library…
.@GrasmereWI Some of your members might be interested in this upcoming event at the Armitt Museum, Ambleside - it's sure to be great fun! Tickets: armitt.com/event-director… (scroll down the page to 13 August)
Thank you to @HighamHall for inviting our own @DrPennyBradshaw to give a talk on Beatrix Potter’s ecological perspectives this afternoon. A lovely audience, great questions & a beautiful venue. Penny’s ’An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ will be published by @BloomsburyAcad in January📚🍃
Ecological perspectives in Beatrix Potter's work: a great talk by @DrPennyBradshaw @HighamHall this afternoon. Now eagerly awaiting publication of Penny's 'A to Z of Beatrix Potter' (Bloomsbury Press) early next year ... @CumbriaEnglish
Delighted to be at a talk about trees, fairies and ecological perspectives in the work of Beatrix Potter by the inspiring “icon” of Lake District literary studies, @DrPennyBradshaw @CumbriaEnglish
Or just love the Lake District and want to immerse yourself in its literature and history? This is definitely the ideal course for you! And now available part-time ...
Thinking about a new career direction or undertaking PG study in the field of literature & cultural studies? Find out more about our MA Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District via our course webpage: cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/…
This will be a wonderful event not least because the readings are introduced by our MA graduate @sue_wilkinson who has researched the history and development of these plays in depth 📚🍃
“I want to git wed”: Readings from the Grasmere Dialect Plays, by Jean Scott-Smith and John Campbell of the Lakeland Dialect Society, introduced by Sue Wilkinson armitt.com/event-director…
Join our MA programme leader @DrPennyBradshaw this Sunday for a talk on Beatrix Potter’s Ecological Perspectives @HighamHall Details and booking via the link below 📚🍃
Our own @DrPennyBradshaw will be giving a talk on 'Trees, Fairies and Ecological Perspectives in the work of Beatrix Potter' @HighamHall on Sunday 20 July at 2pm. Details and booking link here: tinyurl.com/y5bmy2na Image: 'The Fairy Caravan' (Warne: 1952, p. 215)
#TheTimeLabGrasmere Museum Late on Friday 25 July! It's sure to be a special evening... find out more and book via our website: wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/th… #Grasmere #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #Wordsworth
#Onthisday in 1817, #JaneAusten died at the age of 41. 📖 The world lost a literary giant and Jane was never to know the extent of her influence. 💐 Today at Jane Austen’s House, we will be remembering Jane and her incredible legacy. 📸 Luke Shears
A very special afternoon celebrating the graduation of Patti Leino, whose brilliant PhD was supervised by Professor Robert Williams and @DrPennyBradshaw Congratulations Dr Leino! 🎓💐 cumbria.ac.uk/research/centr…
Looking forward to talking about my Lake District trilogy at Keswick Library next month. Tickets available online. tompalmer.co.uk/meet-me/
Congratulations @NadaSaadaoui on being invited to present a paper at this prestigious conference 📚🍃
Honoured to have presented my paper at the Global Jane Austen Conference with @unisouthampton this week 🌍📚 A brilliant few days of conversation, ideas, and insights with scholars from around the world, all exploring Austen’s enduring legacy. #JaneAusten250 @CumbriaEnglish
#VirginiaWoolf, a fan of the #Brontë sisters, made her publishing debut with the essay “Haworth, November 1904” in The Guardian. The piece hints at the style that would later define her novels: intimate family life, meaningful objects, and quietly brilliant women.
One week today! Join our MA programme leader @DrPennyBradshaw for this talk on Beatrix Potter @HighamHall Details and booking via the link below 📚🍃
Our own @DrPennyBradshaw will be giving a talk on 'Trees, Fairies and Ecological Perspectives in the work of Beatrix Potter' @HighamHall on Sunday 20 July at 2pm. Details and booking link here: tinyurl.com/y5bmy2na Image: 'The Fairy Caravan' (Warne: 1952, p. 215)
Excellent paper by MA graduate and current doctoral student @whitbyabi on what Anne Lister’s (partly coded) diaries tell us about the way in which she navigated her sexual identity within public and private spaces 📚
A very well-deserved success - many congratulations 📚@ByLakeland
Our overall winner for the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year Award 2025 goes to ‘Cumbria 1000 Years of Maps by William D Shannon.’ A lifetime of love for the Lakeland landscape is expressed in this work, published by @ByLakeland
‘Beyond the Bonnets: Working Women in Jane Austen’s Novels is being shown by the Hampshire Cultural Trust as part of celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the author’s birth.’ theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…
If you're thinking about PG study in the fields of literary, heritage, environmental and cultural studies, why not find out more about our MA Literature, Romanticism & the Lake District at an online course talk by our programme leader on Wed 30 July at 6pm tinyurl.com/582yyvzw
Our own @DrPennyBradshaw will be giving a talk on 'Trees, Fairies and Ecological Perspectives in the work of Beatrix Potter' @HighamHall on Sunday 20 July at 2pm. Details and booking link here: tinyurl.com/y5bmy2na Image: 'The Fairy Caravan' (Warne: 1952, p. 215)