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Dr Penny Bradshaw

@drpennybradshaw.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. Latest book is ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ (Bloomsbury Academic). Programme Leader for ‘MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District’ at Ambleside.

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A glorious post-open-day early October walk with a low afternoon sun shafting through the trees, making shadow patterns on the fells, and illuminating fallen leaves and a passing butterfly wing 🍂
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very much enjoying listening again to these seasonally-themed Jane Austen podcasts. Today’s commuting treat was the October episode, which includes references to Austen reading both Southey and Radcliffe: www.buzzsprout.com/2434395/epis... 📚🍂
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Taking my MA students to see Beatrix Potter’s extraordinary mycological watercolours at The Armitt Museum & Library is always a highlight of the year but today’s visit was extra special as I was also able to take them on a curator’s tour of my book tie-in exhibition, ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ 📚🍄🍃
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Interested in postgraduate study in the fields of literary, cultural, heritage & environmental studies?Join me at our Open Day on Sat 3 Oct to find out more about our unique MA in Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District, based at our Ambleside campus: www.cumbria.ac.uk/events-calen...
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Always a joy to attend a meeting at Allan Bank in Grasmere, once the home (briefly) of the Wordsworths and subsequently of Hardwicke Rawnsley, co-founder of the National Trust #CulturalLandscapes 📚🍂
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@FaerylandGrasmere @faerylandgrasmere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Welcome Autumn. #Faeryland #Grasmere #LakeDistrict
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A little annual ritual: gathering some last offerings from the garden which will gradually dry out over the next few weeks and remain on the hall table until it is time to decorate the house with festive greenery and berries 🍂
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lovely Lune-side Sunday amble with the first hints of autumn colour. Came across one of the way-markers featuring a verse from Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, ‘The Lancashire Witches’. This one features tercet 8 (tercets 9 & 10 appear in my ‘Literary Lancaster’ tour guide, available from Lancaster Museum) 🍂
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Interested in postgraduate study in the fields of literary, cultural, heritage & environmental studies?Join me at our Open Day on Sat 3 Oct to find out more about our unique MA in Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District, based at our Ambleside campus: www.cumbria.ac.uk/events-calen...
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Delighted that the Autumn 2026 newsletter of the Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas @cumbriauni.bsky.social features our 10 October Grasmere Dialect Plays event in Grasmere. Tickets available from: ticketsource.com/grasmere-vil... Git thysel a ticket noo - it’ll be a grand neet oot!
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National Trust Research @ntresearch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fascinating news from the archaeologists working at the Bath Assembly Rooms. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Layers of Roman history' found beneath Bath Assembly Rooms
Archaeologists say the fragmented finds expand the known extent of Roman occupation in Bath.
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026. shorturl.at/wnsS8 #Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How it started vs. how it’s going 📚🍄🍂 (Photo taken in 2023 with the Beatrix Potter sculpture at Lancaster Castle, a few months before I signed my book contract with @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social and today with the published book)📚
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lovely audience at Verey Books in Pooley Bridge this evening for my talk on Beatrix Potter and some wonderful questions to follow. Thank you for inviting me to kick off your autumn ‘Words on Wednesdays’ programme of events 🍄📚🍂
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Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It’s publication day for this gorgeous beast. Fly my pretty, fly! With work by Josie Giles Anna Fleming Kate Norbury Polly Atkin Linda Cracknell Anita Sethi Helen Mort Kate Davies Gail Simmons Beatrice Searle
The front cover of Women, Walking. It features strata in green and blue and cream with a copper foil.
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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’m re-reading Blue Remembered Hills - the memoirs of Rosemary Sutcliff - aptly covered in cornflower cloth and gorgeously published by @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social. A perfect tonic for our times - an utterly compelling autobiography. What should I read next? #booksky
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
An evening drive over the moors in the last of the day’s light and there were still a few small patches of purple amongst the browning clusters of heather - lingering traces of summer’s abundance and beauty at this, the season’s hinge 🍂
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Lazy Sunday September walks: splashes of scarlet in the hedgerows, blue-black alder leaf beetles making leaf art, and slightly subdued sunlight filtering through the tree canopy in the woods 🍂
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Marianne Seiman, contemporary crochet artist (via Instagram) #Womensart #September
Photo of twelve different and colourful toadstools and mushrooms created from crochet against a black background
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One week today (on Wed 16 Sept) I will be at Verey Books in Pooley Bridge to discuss my recent book, 'An A-Z of Beatrix Potter'. See here for event details and to book a ticket: vereybooks.co.uk/whats-on/
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Always a pleasure to attend the Cumbria Life awards - this time in my role as Trustee of The Armitt Library and Museum, who were nominated for best arts/culture venue. Such a special evening & good to see a literary figure taking home the award for Cumbrian of the Year 📚
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A little urban walking today - around the streets, parks and canals of Lancaster. Despite the sunshine, the colours and quality of light suggest that we are at the season’s hinge 🍂
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This Friday! Join me in Ambleside for a special curator’s tour of my book tie-in exhibition, ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ 🍄📚🍃
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Very much enjoying having a re-listen to this Austen-inspired series of seasonal podcasts. Here’s the September episode: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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Podcast Episode · A Jane Austen Year · 31 August 2025 · 21min
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This Friday! Join me in Ambleside for a special curator’s tour of my book tie-in exhibition, ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ 🍄📚🍃
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A day filled with gentle pleasures, from the red admiral who greeted me first thing to evensong at Lancaster Priory, where Beatrix Potter’s paternal grandparents were married in 1829 📚
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A wander over a moody River Kent after my talk on Beatrix Potter’s ‘myriads of fairy fungi’ @kendalmuseum.bsky.social this afternoon. Such a lovely audience for the talk and some brilliant questions to follow 🍄📚🍃
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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...
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Friday evening ‘total gridlock’ 🐑🐑🐑
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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-...
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In Search of Wilfred Owen A journey from Shropshire to Ors lewiswyndavies.substack.com/p/in-search-...
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In Search of Wilfred Owen
A journey from Shropshire to Ors
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The loveliest of days walking the coves and woodland pathways of Silverdale under blue skies and in the company of many tiny holly blue butterflies. The perfect way to enjoy these last late summer days 🦋🍃☀️
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Thinking about a new career direction or undertaking PG study in the fields of literary and cultural studies this September? Find out more about our unique MA in Literature, Romanticism, and the English Lake District (with full & part time study options available): www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/course...
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
One week tomorrow! Join me at Kendal Museum for a talk on Beatrix Potter's 'myriads of fairy fungi'. The talk will explore Potter's early mycological work and how this would go on to help shape her imaginative worlds. For further details and to book see link below📚🍄
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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!
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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...
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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.
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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 ☀️🌺🦎🦩
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Gentle mornings by the pool ☀️📚
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
‘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...
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The beautiful (and free to visit) Roman theatre in Cartagena 🏛️
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The close-up beauty of cicadas with those delicate wings and the gold sheen of the body.
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Morning companions walking quietly beside me in the shallows of the Mar Menor - the largest saltwater lagoon in Europe🦩🦩🦩
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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 🌺
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George Harris @historylecturer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Glad to see that "The Fairy Caravan" is particularly praised here. It is a superb book. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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…
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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…
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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’!📚🍄
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