Events for today, June 8, at the Brontë Society Summer Festival 2019:
Stephen Whitehead: Arthur Bell Nicholls at 200 - 'The Best Earthly Comfort That Ever Woman Had'
June 08th 2019 09:45am - 11:15am
2019 marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Arthur Bell Nicholls. An integral part of the Brontë family story, Mr Nicholls' story is often overshadowed by the biographies of the Parsonage's more famous inhabitants. In this interesting talk, Stephen Whitehead shares the story of the most intimate witness to the triumphs and tragedies of the Brontës' adult lives.
Stephen Whitehead was a Brontë Parsonage Museum assistant for thirteen years. He has contributed seven major papers to Brontë Studies, a chapter to The Brontës in Context (2012) and his guidebook, The Brontës' Haworth, was re-issued by the Brontë Society in 2017. His two novels, The Last Brontë, about Arthur Bell Nicholls, and Of Love & Duty, about the Nelson/Hamilton ménage, were published in 2017 and 2018.
Church Service
June 8 2019, 11.30am
St Michael & All Angels Church, Haworth
Come and join us for a service of thanksgiving for the Brontë family and especially Patrick, two hundred years after he was first invited to take up the curacy of Haworth.
Brontë Society Annual General Meeting
Saturday 8 June 2019 at 2pm
West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth
Angela Clare: Interpreting Anne Lister of Shibden Hall in Museums and the Media
June 08th 2019 07:30pm - 09:00pm
In 1820, when Patrick Brontë and his family moved into the Parsonage, just ten miles away, Anne Lister (1791-1840) was resident at Shibden Hall near Halifax. Anne would fully inherit Shibden Hall and Estate by 1836 and as the Brontës were writing their first stories and poems, Anne was busy running her estate, travelling the world and recording everything in minute detail in her five-million word diaries. In this special event, Angela Clare, Collections Manager for Calderdale Museums Service which looks after Shibden Hall, will talk about Anne’s life and legacy and how her writings and story have been shared and interpreted over the last two centuries in print, radio, television and in the museum of Shibden Hall itself.
Angela Clare has over fifteen years’ experience working in museums including eight years at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds and the Tower of London working on various interpretation projects and exhibitions. Angela now works for Calderdale Museums, which manage Shibden Hall, Bankfield Museum, the Duke of Wellington’s Regimental Museum, Smith Art Gallery and Heptonstall Museum, on various collections projects, gallery changes and developments, a wide range of exhibitions, publications and films, all to improve access and engagement with collections and history.
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