And testament to the wonderful MA course in 'Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District' that underpinned and inspired the research. Now available part-time - check it out @cumbriauni.bsky.social

This is wonderful news and a testament to the research and commitment of MA graduate @suewilkinson.bsky.social who rediscovered these plays and studied them and their performance history for her final MA Dissertation 📚🍃

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SAVE THE DATE! On 10 October 2026, the Grasmere Dialect Plays will come 'home' to Grasmere Village Hall - for the first time since 1937. Re-created for C21st by members of the Lakeland Dialect Society & accompanied by fiddler Carolyn Francis & folklorist Sue Allan - it'll be a night to remember!

SAVE THE DATE! On 10 October 2026, the Grasmere Dialect Plays will come 'home' to Grasmere Village Hall - for the first time since 1937. Re-created for C21st by members of the Lakeland Dialect Society & accompanied by fiddler Carolyn Francis & folklorist Sue Allan - it'll be a night to remember!

Join me in Ambleside on Friday 4 September at 2pm for a bespoke tour of my book tie-in exhibition at The Armitt Museum and Library: ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’. See here for details and to book: www.armitt.com/event-direct...

A lovely 11 mile circular cycle ride today alongside Morecambe beach and Lancaster canal on my recently acquired, but pleasantly worn-in and sturdy, electric bike before tomorrow’s return to the desk.

The last of the light, setting in a peachy flush, over this lovely little edge of the south-east coast of Spain which has been our home for the last few days ☀️🌺🦎🦩

Gentle mornings by the pool ☀️📚

‘Very quickly, all the colours faded; it became darker & darker as at the beginning of a violent storm; the light sank & sank; we kept saying this is the shadow; & we thought now it is over…when suddenly the light went out’: Virginia Woolf on the 1927 eclipse: www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/09/v...

The beautiful (and free to visit) Roman theatre in Cartagena 🏛️

The close-up beauty of cicadas with those delicate wings and the gold sheen of the body.

Morning companions walking quietly beside me in the shallows of the Mar Menor - the largest saltwater lagoon in Europe🦩🦩🦩

The highlight of my year - spending a week away from the desk with my family. This year we are on the Southern Spanish coast with nearby beaches, vast blue skies & vivid colour. A long day of travel today will hopefully be followed by a some relaxation and exploration tomorrow 🌺

Glad to see that "The Fairy Caravan" is particularly praised here. It is a superb book. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beatrix Potter's 160 years of Lake District legacy

Hundreds of thousands of people visit Beatrix Potter attractions in Cumbria every year.

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Lovely Sunday beach-side jaunt with my newly acquired second-hand electric bike, to a soundtrack of curlews, oystercatchers and lapwings, along a shoreline sprinkled with sea-lavender and bees. Bliss…

Very excited to announce that I will be appearing at Kendal Mountain Festival on Sunday 22 November to discuss ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ 📚🍄🍃 kendalmountainfestival.eventive.org/schedule/6a44e…

Really blown away by the visitor feedback to my book tie-in exhibition which has been running at The Armitt Library & Museum in Ambleside since Feb. Many describe it as beautifully curated & inspiring, & one reviewer (nicely getting into the spirit of things) writes: ‘A is for Amazing exhibition’!📚🍄

night of the fullmoon but lead cloud stacked hides rise - 2 nights from full they rose gently & pink, shine bending over waves in the sand

Called into The Armitt Library & Museum today to sign copies of my book, ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’. Overjoyed to read so very many wonderful handwritten reviews of my book tie-in exhibition in the visitor feedback book. Both book & exhibition were a labour of love 📚🍃🍄 armitt.com/an-a-z-of-beat…

Many 160th birthday celebrations taking place today for Beatrix Potter 🎂 & I was very pleased to be invited onto BBC Radio Cumbria this morning to discuss the ongoing importance of Potter's work. The clip is available (2 hrs 12 mins into the show) for 7 days via BBC Sounds: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The joy of summer - a family lunch with flowers providing colour and beauty in vases as well as in our salad 🌺🌼🌻

Delighted to be invited to join this week’s Book Club podcast for The Spectator to discuss Beatrix Potter’s work and legacy in this the 160th anniversary of her birth, with Sam Leith and Kathryn Hughes 📚🍃🍄 Listen here: spectator.com/podcast/cele...

Celebrating 160 years of Beatrix Potter

This week marks the 160th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth. In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by Penny Bradshaw, author of An A–Z of Beatrix Potter, and the historian and biographer Ka...

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I recently had the honour of writing a guest post about The Summer House at Rydal Mount for @shedworking.bsky.social, to accompany @chrisroutledge.bsky.social 's dramatic photograph. 📷 To learn more about 'massy ways' and 'sheltered nooks', don't delay, take a look! 👀

Chris Routledge@chrisroutledge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An interesting piece by @kirawelland.bsky.social about Wordsworth's writing hut at Rydal Mount on the @shedworking.bsky.social blog www.shedworking.co.uk/2026/05/word...

Wordsworth celebrated at launch of our new title gritstonecoop.co.uk/product/ryda... in Ambleside. @kirawelland.bsky.social reads The Massy Ways. Many thanks to Su from @fredsbookshop.bsky.social and Michael McGregor / Wordsworth Grasmere.

The Summer issue of Studies in Romanticism is here! ☀️ It was a pleasure to co-edit this special issue on 'Mediating the More-Than-Human' with Saeko Yoshikawa 🌿 Thread of essays below, all currently available open access @studiesinrom.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/57172

CFP: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference 28–30 June 2027 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Papers invited papers on any & all aspects of Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture. Deadline 1 Oct 2026 #C18 #C19 #romanticism #bookhistory llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...

The 14th International Walter Scott Conference | English and Scottish Literature | Literatures Languages and Culture

A three-day conference with talks, panels and a plenary session exploring the work of Scottish writer Walter Scott within the theme of 'Politics, Place and Print Culture'. Currently accepting submissi...

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Delighted to be invited to join this week’s Book Club podcast for The Spectator to discuss Beatrix Potter’s work and legacy in this the 160th anniversary of her birth, with Sam Leith and Kathryn Hughes 📚🍃🍄 Listen here: spectator.com/podcast/cele...

Celebrating 160 years of Beatrix Potter

This week marks the 160th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth. In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by Penny Bradshaw, author of An A–Z of Beatrix Potter, and the historian and biographer Ka...

spectator.com

I am giving a talk at Kendal Museum on Sat 29 Aug on Beatrix Potter's 'myriads of fairy fungi’. I’ll explore Potter's fascination with fungi, what attracted her to this field of study, and how imaginative & scientific approaches are intertwined in her thinking. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunchtime-...

Exciting new job opportunity at one of our partner organisations. The Armitt Museum and Library, which is based at the foot of our Ambleside campus, are looking to appoint a new manager and curator (closing date for applications 7 August). www.museumdevelopmentnorth.org.uk/the-armitt-m...

We're thrilled that @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social's fantastic book, An A-Z of Beatrix Potter, has won the Wordsworth Prize for Literature & Poetry at the Lakeland Book of the Year awards! 🎉 Want to read this much-loved addition to our #LitStudies list? It's 30% off in our Summer sale 'til Sunday.

University of Cumbria’s Alumnus of the Year and MA graduate, Jade Cookson (author of ‘The Wordsworth Way’), with me and Vice Chancellor, Professor Julie Mennell 📚🍃🎓