Fun treat in store for 11th March: sample the amazing Grasmere Dialect Plays, recreated by members of the Lakeland Dialect Society. At 6.15 in the Studio, @tbtlake.bsky.social, Keswick, as part of the fabulous 'Words by the Water' Festival. Prog and tickets here: wordsbythewaterkeswick.com/events/

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be appearing at this year’s Words by the Water festival in Keswick on Saturday 14th March to talk about my new book, 'An A-Z of Beatrix Potter'. See here for the full festival programme and to book tickets: x.com/cumbriaengli...

I am thrilled to be speaking about Beatrix Potter as part of @litfest.bsky.social 2026 and to mark International Women’s Day (Sunday 8 March) 📚🍃

Snowdrops by the Rothay on this bleak January day 🍃📚

Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June CFP deadline: Friday 1st May We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩 Please share - and send us an abstract!

On 8th March at 7pm, Dr Penny Bradshaw will be celebrating #internationalwomensday by taking us through the A-Z of Beatrix Potter in conversation with Jo Baker! Tickets only £8, book now! geni.us/LFSpring26

Fascinating day in Rainsbarrow woods in the Duddon Valley exploring traces of the charcoal burning industry with colleagues from @historicengland.bsky.social & @forestryengland.bsky.social Thinking also about the story of this place as it appears in writing by Wordsworth, Nicholson, Ransome & others

I am delighted @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social is going to be speaking @litfest.bsky.social this spring . #BeatrixPotter is one of my favourite women . She achieved so much in her lifetime .

#EnglishCreates: Futures Our 'Environments' month continues with Prof Ralph Pite's latest piece on bringing nature into the teaching of English Studies: 'How can you make the natural world an everyday, "natural" presence for students?' Full post: lnkd.in/ewQk7pDB #EnglishStudies #Ecocriticism

I am going to be running an in-person day of workshops on Wuthering Heights adaptations at the Bronte Parsonage in March! You'll get to deep dive into adaptation history AND you'll get the chance to go and look at exhibits in the archives found nowhere else! www.bronte.org.uk/events/wuthe...

‘How shall I paint thee?’ (William Wordsworth’). A brilliant talk by @chrisroutledge.bsky.social this evening on the evolving landscape of the Lake District and how we can explore and tell its layered and complex history through photography and art🍃

Celebrated the arrival of February and Imbolc with a walk featuring many snowdrops then a late afternoon ‘sound bath’ and relaxation session in a quiet barn up on the fells 🍃🕯️

Join me online at 6pm on Wed 18 Feb to find out more about our unique Ambleside-based MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District (with full time & part time study options available)🍃📚 x.com/cumbriaengli...

Join us next Tuesday at our Ambleside campus for this free public Cultural Landscapes talk. For further details and to book a place visit the link below.

#158: Haystacks – How Wainwright changed our lives ...in which we embark on a memorial walk to Innominate Tarn on Haystacks to ask the question: How did fell-walker Alfred Wainwright impact on so many lives?

Save the date 26 April 2026: ‘Fern Fever on the Fells’. I’ll be giving a Sunday afternoon talk at the lovely Higham Hall, Bassenthwaite, followed by tea & cake. It will tell the story of the Victorian fern craze in the Lake District. Booking details to follow.

I am thrilled to be speaking about Beatrix Potter as part of @litfest.bsky.social 2026 and to mark International Women’s Day (Sunday 8 March) 📚🍃

This Saturday come and speak to the Lake District National Park Partnership team 📢 They'll be talking about the Partnership Plan 2026 - 2031 and answering questions. You can drop in to Sizergh Castle Visitor Centre anytime between 11am and 3pm.

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be appearing at this year’s Words by the Water festival in Keswick on Saturday 14th March to talk about my new book, 'An A-Z of Beatrix Potter'. See here for the full festival programme and to book tickets: x.com/cumbriaengli...

Join me online at 6pm on Wed 18 Feb to find out more about our unique Ambleside-based MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District (with full time & part time study options available)🍃📚 x.com/cumbriaengli...

Came upon my first snowdrops as well as my first celandine of the year today 🌱

The next event in our Cultural Landscapes series will take place on Tue 3 Feb. It will be a free talk by @chrisroutledge.bsky.social on 'Restoring Hardknott Forest: Photographing "Wildwood" in the Duddon Valley'. See here for further details & to book a place: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...

Three weeks until the book launch. Come along for Plath and stay for the magic. Register here: tinyurl.com/4r8cwawf

Today was spent celebrating and sharing work relating to our research Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas at our Ambleside campus, and having some inspiring conversations with our wonderful advisory board 📚🍃 @roseoneill.bsky.social @davidhiggins.bsky.social

My reflections on last year including a sneaky little hint of my forthcoming @saraband-books.bsky.social 'in the moment' book #SwimmingTheSeasons here and my forthcoming @serenbooks.bsky.social poetry collection #EmergencyDream - both seasonal, both with lashings of #LakeLight and wagtails.

Come along to the ALSE-UKI online seminar on 29 Jan, featuring a wide range of papers from contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literature & the Environment. Book your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s... #18thCentury #18C #18thC

Great to see press coverage of our research with Gerard Carruthers. We trace the origins of Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’ to nearly 400 years of Scottish “food patriotism”: a tradition of presenting Scotland as a land of plenty in response to English and French portrayals of it as an impoverished wasteland.

🎺NEW BLOG POST🎺 'Romantic Transformations: The Ornithological Imagination in Wordsworth, Shelley, and Dickinson' will-sherwood.com/2025/12/30/r... @bars.bsky.social @emilydickinson.bsky.social

New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Walking with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth Taking place: Jan 14, 2026 05:00 PM GMT For more details and to register: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6260

New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Re-reading the Minerva Press Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT For more info and to register for the Zoom link: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265

New network: The Eighteenth Century Ecologies Network, based at the University of York (@cecs-york.bsky.social) More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6273

The next event in our Cultural Landscapes series will take place on Tue 3 Feb. It will be a free talk by @chrisroutledge.bsky.social on 'Restoring Hardknott Forest: Photographing "Wildwood" in the Duddon Valley'. See here for further details & to book a place: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...

Thank you to all who came along to today’s book launch event to celebrate the publication of ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ and a special thanks to @samreadbookseller.bsky.social for organising book sales for the event. It was a joyous afternoon! 📚🥂🍃🍄 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Beautiful book publication/pre-launch day flowers 📚💐

Out now: An A-Z of Beatrix Potter by @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social A fresh insight into #BeatrixPotter’s writing and legacy through twenty-six interconnected, alphabetically arranged essays on her published and private works. 📘Get your copy: https://bit.ly/4s5kOY9

It’s publication day for my latest book: ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’! This book was a joy to research and write and I am so thrilled that it is finally out in the world 🥳📚🍃🍄 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/az-of-bea...

A stark January landscape and stone/ice art on the riverbank on this the last day of my Christmas break❄️

Welcoming in 2026 with a walk to St Patrick’s Chapel at Heysham Head - one of my favourite spots.

It feels rather moving that I should receive author copies of my new book on Beatrix Potter on this, the anniversary of her death: 22 December (1943). She was an extraordinary woman and I just hope that my new book manages to capture some of her unique and inspirational brilliance 📚🍄🍃

Rather delightfully, my author copies of ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ arrived today, just after the solstice. I introduced a first copy to the golden afternoon winter light 📚🍃🥂🎄 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

A little Gothic theatre for the dark season 🕯️

A joyous end to the semester with our annual festive postgraduate gathering, featuring a literary Christmas quiz, wintry/Christmas readings and an abundance of delicious food (including recipes from Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Austen). Happy Christmas everyone! 📚🥂🎄

As the semester draws to its close, it’s lovely to see info about my January book launch around campus, including a lovely little library display put together by my wonderful colleagues here at Ambleside 📚🍃🥂

Very excited to announce that tickets are now available for the book launch of my new book on Beatrix Potter. Taking place at the University of Cumbria’s Ambleside campus, 2-4pm on Saturday 10 January, further details and booking link can be found here: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Coming soon: "An A-Z of Beatrix Potter" explores the author's works and legacy through a series of short, interlinked essays. Learn more: bit.ly/3M8rSml @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social

Tonight the Cold Moon rises 🌕❄️ Known too as the Long Night Moon or the Moon Before Yule, it lifts into the deepening dark as we head toward the year’s longest nights. It will be the last supermoon of 2025. Moonrise: 14:44* 📷 @andrewfusekpeters.bsky.social

This was such a great night! Thank you @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social for the invitation! I had a wonderful time.

A brilliant, erudite and thoroughly enjoyable talk last evening by @dalegothic96.bsky.social on the treatment and significance of ruined abbeys, priories and castles within 18thC Gothic fiction, plus insights on how such ruins can continue to inspire the creative imagination today 📚

Join me online this Wednesday evening (3rd Dec) at 6pm to find out more about our unique Ambleside-based MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District (full time & part time study options available)🍃📚 tinyurl.com/mwrdtnz3

NEWS: We've been ranked top in the UK for ‘overall postgraduate research student experience’, fourth for ‘research community’ and fifth for ‘research skills development'🎓Read more: news.cumbria.ac.uk/news/univers...