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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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

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Project MUSE - Studies in Romanticism-Volume 65, Number 2, Summer 2026

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Such a lovely evening at the Lakeland Book of the Year awards. I am overjoyed that ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ has not only won the Wordsworth Prize for Literature & Poetry but was also runner up for the overall Lakeland Book of the Year 2026 (the very worthy winner of which was Sarah Hall’s ‘Helm’)📚

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Gritstone Publishing @gritstonebooks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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.

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A superb talk this evening on the significance of acts of walking in Jane Austen’s novels by our PhD student @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social and a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Nada’s successful viva yesterday 🥳 A very special way to bring the 2025-26 Cultural Landscapes series to a close 📚🍃

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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! 👀

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"While from the purpling east departs The star that led the dawn, Blithe Flora from her couch upstarts, For May is on the lawn. ..."🖋 📘 William Wordsworth, extract from 'Ode Composed on May Morning'. 💐 There is no better place to play, than Rydal Mount in May (or with May! 🐶) 🐕 May the Dog

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Join us in Ambleside one week today {Tue 2 June) for the final event in our Cultural Landscapes series for this academic year. This free illustrated talk will discuss Jane Austen and Romantic Pedestrianism. See link below for further details and to book a place 🍃📚

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height: Spirits of Power, assembled there, complain For kindred Power departing from their sight;" William Wordsworth, 'On Sir Walter Scott's quitting Abbots-ford, for Naples'.

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Join me in Ambleside tomorrow for this talk on ‘Beatrix Potter’s Myriads of Fairy fungi’. For details and to book see link below 📚🍃🍄

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Chris Routledge @chrisroutledge.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Wordsworth's writing hut, at Rydal Mount. On a sheet of 4x5 film that managed, more or less, to withstand an enormous act of incompetence on my part and turn out quite interesting after all. #BelieveinFilm

The writing hut at Rydal Mount, photographed incompetently on large format black and white film.

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Publication day! #SwimmingTheSeasons: A freshwater Almanac out now with @saraband-books.bsky.social. Signed copies on the shelf @samreadbookseller.bsky.social and launch in-person and online @portyliterary.bsky.social on Tuesday 12th, when I'll be talking with @elspethwrites.bsky.social #BookSky

Hand holding small light teal book 'swimming the seaons: a freshwater almanac' by Polly Atkin, in front of sunlit lake and bluebell covered fell

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Beautiful historic photo of Scale How at our Ambleside campus. The house was once called Green Bank and was the home of Dorothy Harrison, the daughter of Wordsworth’s cousin. For more local literary connections see my ‘Literary Walking Tour of Ambleside’ tinyurl.com/ycybr4yw 📚🍃

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

*WORDSWORTH SUMMER CONFERENCE 2026 CALL FOR PAPERS* If you are interested in submitting a paper and have not already done so, this is your reminder that the proposal deadline is just one week away. Please send your abstract and short bio to proposal.wsc@gmail.com by 15 May 2026.

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"... The weather is delightful, and the place a paradise; ..." 📔 Letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, May 2nd, 1813. 🏡 213 years ago today, the Wordsworth family moved to Rydal Mount. Here they remained for the rest of their lives, and traces still linger in their walls and words.

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Mirehouse Gardens near Keswick in the Lake District yesterday morning. The Lake Poets, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey would have sat in this garden.

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Chris Routledge @chrisroutledge.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This is from my "Wildwood" series. Ring barking involves removing a strip of bark all the way round a tree to kill it but leave it standing. The dead trunk becomes a home for insects and birds. This is Sitka Spruce, an invasive non-native tree. #Holga #BelieveInFilm

A tree trunk with a ring of bark removed. Black and white and rather grungy photograph. #Holga #KodakTriX

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Join us at our Ambleside campus one week today for this free talk on 'Vikings, Statesmen and Herdwicks: history and myth in the Lake District'. See link below for further details and to book a place 📚🍃

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Interested in undertaking postgraduate study in September? There is still time to book a place at this online talk at 6pm tomorrow (Wed 29 April) at which you can find out more about our unique Ambleside-based MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District 📚🍃

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"Aërial Rock - whose solitary brow From this low threshold daily meets my sight; ..."🖋 📘 William Wordsworth, 'Aërial Rock- whose solitary brow'.

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One year ago today we celebrated the launch of the Wordsworth Way at our Ambleside campus and the publication of the official route guidebook by our own MA graduate, Jade Cookson 📚🍃

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

"Let more ambitious Poets take the heart By storm, my Verse would rather win its way With gentle violence into minds well pleased To give it welcome with a prompt return Of their own sweetness, ..." 🖋 📘 William Wordsworth, 'Let more ambitious Poets take the heart'. 💐 Happy World Poetry Day!

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Very much looking forward to this year's Summer Conference... join us for rambles (walks) & rambles (talks) in Rydal! 🏡

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Gritstone Publishing @gritstonebooks.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Gritstone book due out this summer now that @cumbriapr.bsky.social can write her final chapter. Well done Wordsworth Grasmere, the best outcome wordsworth.org.uk/rydalmount/?...

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The next event in our Cultural Landscapes series is a free talk by @whitbyabi.bsky.social on Anne Lister and her 1824 tour of the Lake District. The talk will take place on Tue 14 April (6.30pm) at our Ambleside campus. For further details & to book a place see www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/per...

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I am overjoyed to have appeared at the wonderful Words by the Water festival today, in this the festival’s 25th anniversary year, to talk about my new book, ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’. Thank you to the festival organisers and to all who attended and made the event so very special 📚🍄🍃

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

📖 I recently had the privilege of attending the Wordsworth Winter Conference 2026, my first as administrator for the Wordsworth Conference Foundation. This was hosted at the wonderful Wordsworth Grasmere, who I cannot thank enough for their warm welcome and support to us all. 1/2

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Join me at 11am next Saturday (14 March) at Words by the Water in Keswick for new perspectives on Beatrix Potter from my recently published book, ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’: www.wordsbythewaterkeswick.com/events/penny...

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Lovely piece on Beatrix Potter in the latest issue of 'Living North' magazine features an interview with me in which I reflect on Potter as an important environmental writer for children and much more 📚🍄#AnAtoZofBeatrixPotter

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Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A66 Creative Commissions – NOW OPEN for applications! Oxford Cotswold Archaeology are thrilled to announce an open call for two Creative Commissions, each worth up to £9,650, inspired by the archaeological discoveries along the A66! 📅 March 1 2026 🔗 tr.ee/6ArLbX

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Grasmere Dialect Plays @grasdialectplays.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Why did tourists flock to Grasmere every January in the 1920s and '30s? (Clearly it wasn't for the weather ...) Come and find out @tbtlake.bsky.social, Keswick on 11th March at 6.15, in the Studio. Big clues in the photos below - and/or check out www.wordsbythewaterkeswick.com

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Join me online at 6pm on Wed 18 Feb to find out more about our unique Ambleside-based MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District (with full time & part time study options available)🍃📚 x.com/cumbriaengli...

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Join us next Tuesday at our Ambleside campus for this free public Cultural Landscapes talk. For further details and to book a place visit the link below.

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"... Like that which frowns round dark Lochskene. There eagles scream from isle to shore; Down all the rocks the torrents roar; O'er the black waves incessant driven, Dark mists infect the summer heaven;"🖋 📕 Walter Scott, extract from 'Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field'.

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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

✨ An Evening with National Trust Archaeologists ✨ Ever wondered what archaeology looks like behind the scenes at National Trust places? Join the CBA for a free online evening exploring the archaeology cared for by National Trust, including community digs, hilltop enclosures and Roman gold mining.

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Chris Routledge @chrisroutledge.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I've been thinking a lot about the Duddon valley recently, not least because I'm giving a talk about photographing Hardknott Forest at the University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus on February 3rd. Details here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years. 1/3

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Events updates! First up - a @bars.bsky.social digital panel on Jan 14th, 5pm - with Anneke Lubkowkitz, Annie Rutherford, Abi Palmer and me talking about Romantic era writers, disability, walking, landscape and queerness. pollyatkin.com/events/

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Future Events Wednesday 14th Jan, 5pm, Walking Forward with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth – an online panel for The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) &#8211…

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A New Year’s greeting from the collection! Wishing you all a thoughtful and hopeful start to the year ahead. 🖼 Gift Cards for the New Year by W.Place Dickes, 1874 #BritishLibrary #Library #Collection #HappyNewYear

Illustrated Victorian New Year card featuring green leaves and pale blossoms framing a printed poem titled “The New Year” by H. Coleridge, with decorative borders and soft, muted colours.

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Spirit of the old new year

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

"To night the church-tower bells will ring Through these wide realms a festire peal; To the new year a welcoming; A tuneful offering for the weal Of happy millions lulled in sleep While I am forced to watch and weep, By wounds that may not heal." William Wordsworth 'Lament of Mary Queen of Scots'.

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Friends of the Lake District @friendsoflakes.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Thanks to all our members, supporters, donors and volunteers for everything they have done this year! Our offices are now closed until Monday 5 January. If you need to contact us urgently please email our info at address (see our website). Otherwise we'll see you in 2026! 📸Chris Howe

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

"This is the day when kindred meet Round one accustomed social fire: ... Beneath the Grandsire's reverenced roof, Where faithful love through trying years has stood all proof." 🖋 📔 Dorothy Wordsworth, 'Christmas day', 1837. 🎄 Merry Christmas all, and Happy Birthday Dorothy ❤️

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Owl alert! You can listen back to my little snippet on #TawnyOwls now. Thanks agains so much to Sophie Anton for asking me to do this and to being so flexible so we could get it recorded easily and accessibly for me, and to Caz Graham for coming to do the recording. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Tweet of the Day - Polly Atkin on the Tawny Owl - BBC Sounds

For writer Polly Atkin the nighttime calls of tawny owls mean company and community.

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Online poetry reading tomorrow evening UK time from the Wordsworth Trust - @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social hosting Josie Giles. Next month is Sarah Howe! I keep missing these but they're such great events. Do share and come along! www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

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'Go to the poets': Harry Josephine Giles

Curated and hosted by poet Kim Moore, our online contemporary poetry reading series continues throughout 2025. We will be listening to what poets...

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Cumbria Wildlife Trust @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Snacktime! 🐿️😍 During autumn, red squirrels scour their habitats for nuts, berries & other vital energy sources. They don't hibernate, so they cache lots of this foraged food in shallow holes and tree crevices to keep them going through the cold winter months. 🎥 Paul Burke #NatureInFlux

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

On Friday 28 November (3pm) I'll be speaking in the seminar series from the Centre for Regional and Local History and the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester. It's free and open to the public - all welcome! Info in AltText. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems #book #history #event

From Nation to Local: Re-discovering England's places through A History of England in 25 Poems
Friday 28 November, University of Leicester
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https://www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2025/09/23/from-nation-to-local-re-discovering-englands-places-through-a-history-of-england-in-25-poems/

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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

"Mary and I walked to the top of the hill and looked at Rydale. I was much affected when I stood upon the second bar of Sara's gate. The lake was perfectly still, the sun shone on the hill and vale, the distant birch trees looked like large golden flowers." 📔 Dorothy Wordsworth, 1st November 1802.

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Friends of the Lake District @friendsoflakes.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It's been a busy and very wet week for Jan and the volunteers in our #Ambleside woodlands - and there's an exciting new opportunity to help plant some wildflowers at Mazonwath. Read all about it: loom.ly/sm_pXiU #naturewriting #volunteering #LakeDistrict 📸 George Carr

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Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

The weather forecast for next week is very good but until then, another day of this to get through. Derwentwater, Cumbria today.

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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This is wonderful news and fantastic to see another piece of important research, begun as part of an assessed project on our MA programme, now reaching a wider audience and being showcased in this way. Many congratulations @suewilkinson.bsky.social 📚🍃

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