An exhibition and a book

Great British Life features From Haworth to Eternity, this year's temporary exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

The enduring legacy of the Brontës has been fascinating visitors to Haworth for over 175 years, shaping the village where the family lived and worked. From the very first literary pilgrims and souvenir hunters to those inspired by the many film productions and adaptations, Haworth has become synonymous with the family.

‘Wuthering Heights’ starring Margot Robbie, the new exhibition will focus on the impact of the many film and TV adaptations of Charlotte, Emily and Anne’s novels on the small moor side Yorkshire village, and it will include letters, manuscripts, souvenir albums and items from the Museum’s drama archive.

‘From Haworth to Eternity’As filming begins for the most recent Brontë screen adaptation, Emerald Fennel’s , shows just how the concept of celebrity fever isn't new.

Ann Dinsdale, principal curator at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, says: 'The first literary tourists started to appear in Haworth in around 1851, following the publication of ‘Jane Eyre’, hoping to take away a Brontë souvenir or an anecdote from one of those who had known the family. From then on, the village became a place of pilgrimage, increasingly so with each and every screen adaptation. In ‘From Haworth to Eternity’, we can look back on the first of these, filmed in Haworth over 100 years ago in 1920, through flyers and photographs saved in our collection, continuing to the present and one of the most recent - Sally Wainwright’s ‘To Walk Invisible’ (2016).'

Rebecca Yorke, Director of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, says: '2025 is an incredibly exciting year for us as we join the rest of Bradford district to celebrate our year in the spotlight as the UK City of Culture. As well as a packed programme of exhibitions, events and activities, not to mention our new visitor facilities, we’ll be taking a closer look at perceptions of the family, and their home, as seen through the eyes of other writers, film-makers and literary tourists over the last century and more.

'The Brontës were born and raised in Bradford, and it’s entirely appropriate that they and the village where they lived and wrote their world-renowned novels and poetry continue to be celebrated more than 200 years after they were born.'

Visitors to Haworth - and the Museum website - will be able to experience different talks which take place in person and online – offering a live opportunity to hear first hand from experts connected to the Brontë Parsonage Museum. These include:

· Award-winning playwright and theatre director Polly Teale on her various Brontë inspired plays and stage adaptations. (March 13)

· Helena Whitbread MBE, biographer of 19th century diarist and Anne Lister, sharing her insight into the Halifax landowner and ‘first modern lesbian’. (April 3)

· Writer Nick Ahad, whose latest radio play – created for Bradford 2025 – features Bradford schoolboys Bilal and Ted heading on a time travel adventure with their guide – the indomitable Emily Brontë. (May 8)

· Dean de la Motte, author of ‘Oblivion: The Lost Diaries of Branwell Brontë’, will explore the often-overlooked sibling on the anniversary of his birth. (June 26)

‘From Haworth to Eternity’ is now open to the public. The Brontë Parsonage Museum’s first fully accessible visitor toilets and Changing Places facility are also now open. (Kathryn Armstrong)

CultureFly has an article by Sophie Austin, who has just published her novel The Lamplighter's Bookshop.

I’m yet to meet a person that hasn’t read, watched, or at least heard of Jane Eyre – despite the fact the book is over 170 years old. While gas lamps, telegrams and monocles might’ve gone out of fashion, Victorian fiction seems timeless, and our obsession with it isn’t slowing down anytime soon. But what is it about this period of time that we can’t resist reading (or in my case, writing) about? [...]

It’s just as tantalising today to watch Rochester slowly realise his love for Jane Eyre as it was almost two hundred years ago. Love hasn’t changed throughout the centuries – but the language of it has.