Two dates to write down in your diary

The Brontë Parsonage Blog has a post about Britain's Best, a TV programme whose aim is to find out the UK's favourite historical site. The Brontë Parsonage will be competing for the title, of course.

Hosted by Alan Titchmarsh, the campaign will involve two television series and a final programme presenting the winner as decided by you and the British public.

As someone who values the Parsonage, please take the time to vote for it! You can do this from 5 April to 27 August in any of the following ways:

• visiting www.uktvhistory.co.uk and registering your vote

• texting BEST BRONTE PARSONAGE to 83222 (texts cost 50p plus standard network charges)

• calling 09011 31 2007 and quoting Bronte Parsonage (calls cost 50p)

• or visiting us and posting your vote into our voting box.

• For those of you who have Sky, you can also vote using your Red Button.

UKTV History is also launching a Britain’s Best directory on www.uktvhistory.co.uk that will help you find some of the best historical locations to visit across the UK, as well as reviews, pictures and videos for each place from people who have actually been there.

Britain’s Best will be on UKTV History (Sky channel 537, Virgin TV 203 and Freeview 12) from 9 April to 20 May and from 23 July to 27 August. Don’t miss the final result on 17 September to see if we’ve won!

Now write down in your diary under April 5: start voting for the Brontë Parsonage Museum!

On another - very different - note. According to Scoop, Susannah Fullerton will be at the Central City Library, Auckland, New Zealand, on 22 March.

Fullerton will be presenting a talk on The Brontes: sisters of tragedy and passion. Her presentation explores the lives and writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, the authors of such wildly romantic, complex and unconventional novels as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

By that description you wonder what it is that Anne wrote or whether she paired off with one of the others. Anyway, here's further details on the talk:

Glengarry Writers in the Library Series
Date: Thursday 22 March
Time: 5.30pm for a 6 pm start
Location: Whare Wananga, Level 2, Central City Library 44-46 Lorne St City
Cost: Free
Bookings: Wine and nibbles included. Bookings recommended. Call 09 377 0209.

Susannah Fullerton is a well-known Austen scholar.

Categories: Alert, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Movies-DVD-TV, Talks