Dr Penny Bradshaw
@drpennybradshaw.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic Jan 8th. Programme Leader for ‘MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District’ at Ambleside.
An extraordinary and very special morning with our MA students in the Jerwood Centre at Wordsworth Grasmere, exploring the manuscript development of ‘The Prelude’ under the expert curatorial guidance of Jeff Cowton. A real highlight of the academic year and our MA experience 📚🍃
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
An extraordinary and very special morning with our MA students in the Jerwood Centre at Wordsworth Grasmere, exploring the manuscript development of ‘The Prelude’ under the expert curatorial guidance of Jeff Cowton. A real highlight of the academic year and our MA experience 📚🍃
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On #RemembranceSunday we invite you to use and share our resources on Women, the Great War, and the Vote. These resources consider how the war affected women’s lives and the longer term campaigns for women’s suffrage.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
On #RemembranceSunday we invite you to use and share our resources on Women, the Great War, and the Vote. These resources consider how the war affected women’s lives and the longer term campaigns for women’s suffrage.
womenshistoryscotland.org/resources/re...
womenshistoryscotland.org/resources/re...
‘I will go back to the hills again / To the hills I knew of old’. A beautiful and moving Cumbria-inspired poem for Remembrance Sunday 📚🍃
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
‘I will go back to the hills again / To the hills I knew of old’. A beautiful and moving Cumbria-inspired poem for Remembrance Sunday 📚🍃
Tomorrow! Join me at our Ambleside campus for this Saturday's Open Day to find out more about our unique MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District 📚🍃
Interested in PG study in the fields of literary, cultural, heritage & environmental studies? Why not come along to our Open Day on Sat 8 Nov to find out more about our MA Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District, based at our Ambleside campus: www.cumbria.ac.uk/events/open-...
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tomorrow! Join me at our Ambleside campus for this Saturday's Open Day to find out more about our unique MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District 📚🍃
The next free event in our Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk on Tuesday 2nd December (6.30pm start) by @dalegothic96.bsky.social on 'Gothic Architecture and Gothic Fiction in the Long Eighteenth Century'. See here for further details & to book a place: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The next free event in our Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk on Tuesday 2nd December (6.30pm start) by @dalegothic96.bsky.social on 'Gothic Architecture and Gothic Fiction in the Long Eighteenth Century'. See here for further details & to book a place: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...
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Anyone around Ambleside in early December? @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Anyone around Ambleside in early December? @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...
A joyous and very special Cultural Landscapes event this evening with the brilliant Dr Sue Allan discussing song, music and dance in the Lake Counties. The talk included archive recordings as well as wonderful performances from Sue herself 🎶🍃📚
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A joyous and very special Cultural Landscapes event this evening with the brilliant Dr Sue Allan discussing song, music and dance in the Lake Counties. The talk included archive recordings as well as wonderful performances from Sue herself 🎶🍃📚
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Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
Join me in Ambleside one week today to find out more about our unique MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District. Visit the link below for further details and to book a place 📚🍃
Interested in PG study in the fields of literary, cultural, heritage & environmental studies? Why not come along to our Open Day on Sat 8 Nov to find out more about our MA Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District, based at our Ambleside campus: www.cumbria.ac.uk/events/open-...
November 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Join me in Ambleside one week today to find out more about our unique MA in Literature, Romanticism and the Lake District. Visit the link below for further details and to book a place 📚🍃
A Cumbrian poem for Hallowe'en: 'The Vampyre' (1810) by John Stagg, who was born near Carlisle. The poem appeared in his collection 'The Minstrel of the North; or, Cumbrian Legends'
🦇🧛♂️🎃🕯️📚 rictornorton.co.uk/gothic/stagg...
🦇🧛♂️🎃🕯️📚 rictornorton.co.uk/gothic/stagg...
October 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A Cumbrian poem for Hallowe'en: 'The Vampyre' (1810) by John Stagg, who was born near Carlisle. The poem appeared in his collection 'The Minstrel of the North; or, Cumbrian Legends'
🦇🧛♂️🎃🕯️📚 rictornorton.co.uk/gothic/stagg...
🦇🧛♂️🎃🕯️📚 rictornorton.co.uk/gothic/stagg...
Join us in Ambleside one week today for this free talk on ‘Folk song, music and dance in the Lake Counties’. See link below for further details and to book a place 📚🍃🎶
The next event in our free monthly Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk by Cultural Historian, Dr Sue Allan, on 'Folk song, music & dance in the Lake Counties', taking place at our Ambleside campus on Tue 4 Nov. See here for details and to book a place: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/per...
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Join us in Ambleside one week today for this free talk on ‘Folk song, music and dance in the Lake Counties’. See link below for further details and to book a place 📚🍃🎶
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Love this idea @nytimes.com
"How many of you practice seasonally driven reading? I doubt any library patron on earth remains unfamiliar with the term “beach read,” but what should we crack open once we see delicata squash & heirloom pears stacked up at the market?"
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"How many of you practice seasonally driven reading? I doubt any library patron on earth remains unfamiliar with the term “beach read,” but what should we crack open once we see delicata squash & heirloom pears stacked up at the market?"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/b...
These Cozy Fall Books Feel Like a Hug
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October 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Love this idea @nytimes.com
"How many of you practice seasonally driven reading? I doubt any library patron on earth remains unfamiliar with the term “beach read,” but what should we crack open once we see delicata squash & heirloom pears stacked up at the market?"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/b...
"How many of you practice seasonally driven reading? I doubt any library patron on earth remains unfamiliar with the term “beach read,” but what should we crack open once we see delicata squash & heirloom pears stacked up at the market?"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/b...
Glorious autumnal day for a sunny morning leg stretch along the banks of the River Ribble and a visit to the old Roman town of Ribchester 🏛️🍁🍂
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Glorious autumnal day for a sunny morning leg stretch along the banks of the River Ribble and a visit to the old Roman town of Ribchester 🏛️🍁🍂
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Within the damp and clinging earth,
Where darkness spans a world unseen,
An acorn dreamed; and, dreaming, saw blue skies and forests green
Ella Maxwell Haddox
Where darkness spans a world unseen,
An acorn dreamed; and, dreaming, saw blue skies and forests green
Ella Maxwell Haddox
October 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Within the damp and clinging earth,
Where darkness spans a world unseen,
An acorn dreamed; and, dreaming, saw blue skies and forests green
Ella Maxwell Haddox
Where darkness spans a world unseen,
An acorn dreamed; and, dreaming, saw blue skies and forests green
Ella Maxwell Haddox
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Interested in PG study in the fields of literary, cultural, heritage & environmental studies? Why not come along to our Open Day on Sat 8 Nov to find out more about our MA Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District, based at our Ambleside campus: www.cumbria.ac.uk/events/open-...
October 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Interested in PG study in the fields of literary, cultural, heritage & environmental studies? Why not come along to our Open Day on Sat 8 Nov to find out more about our MA Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District, based at our Ambleside campus: www.cumbria.ac.uk/events/open-...
A superb article which showcases the brilliant archival research undertaken by our MA graduate @suewilkinson.bsky.social on the Grasmere Dialect Plays 📚🍃
Cumbria Life has published an expanded online version of my piece on the fabulous Grasmere Dialect Plays - including lots more images. Find it here:
www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/cu...
www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/cu...
The play that is helping to preserve Westmorland dialect and customs
The Grasmere Dialect Plays enact scenes from everyday life, entirely in Westmorland dialect
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October 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A superb article which showcases the brilliant archival research undertaken by our MA graduate @suewilkinson.bsky.social on the Grasmere Dialect Plays 📚🍃
Vibrant yellow October leaf art 🍁
October 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Vibrant yellow October leaf art 🍁
Dramatic skies over the lake here in Ambleside this morning for the first of our MA seminars on Arthur Ransome’s influential ‘Swallows and Amazons’ series ⛵️📚🍃 #LiteraryLandscapes
October 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Dramatic skies over the lake here in Ambleside this morning for the first of our MA seminars on Arthur Ransome’s influential ‘Swallows and Amazons’ series ⛵️📚🍃 #LiteraryLandscapes
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Enjoyed filming this video on Recovery of Literary Manuscripts and our multispectral work on Tennyson and the Shelley Circle. Many thanks to the video team at the University of Oxford! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvIq...
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Recovery of Literary Manuscripts
YouTube video by University of Oxford
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October 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Enjoyed filming this video on Recovery of Literary Manuscripts and our multispectral work on Tennyson and the Shelley Circle. Many thanks to the video team at the University of Oxford! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvIq...
@ox.ac.uk
@engfac.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
@engfac.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social
@bars.bsky.social
A misty, moody and beautiful day in Ambleside for our discussion of ‘Romantic Ecology’ and the way in which Wordsworth’s work has contributed to our thinking about the relationship between humans and the natural environment 📚🍂
October 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A misty, moody and beautiful day in Ambleside for our discussion of ‘Romantic Ecology’ and the way in which Wordsworth’s work has contributed to our thinking about the relationship between humans and the natural environment 📚🍂
‘Austen’s mapped worlds remind us that geography is never neutral. It shapes choices, relationships and power’. Her novels ask a question still urgent today: ‘where, and how freely, can women move?’ Another superb piece in @uk.theconversation.com by my doctoral student @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social 📚🍃
Austen’s cities, seaside resorts, country estates and naval towns remind us that geography is never neutral.
How Jane Austen’s landscapes mapped women’s lives
Austen’s cities, seaside resorts, country estates and naval towns remind us that geography is never neutral.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
‘Austen’s mapped worlds remind us that geography is never neutral. It shapes choices, relationships and power’. Her novels ask a question still urgent today: ‘where, and how freely, can women move?’ Another superb piece in @uk.theconversation.com by my doctoral student @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social 📚🍃
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Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
The Wordsworth Lecture: Romantic Ecology Rebooted | British Library
This year’s Wordsworth Lecture is given by author Jonathan Bate, sharing his hugely influential work on Wordsworth and sustainability, Romantic Ecology.As
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October 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
October ditch: leaf art 🍂
October 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
October ditch: leaf art 🍂
Absolutely brilliant talk by my doctoral student @whitbyabi.bsky.social
on Anne Lister and Dorothy Wordsworth at the Anne Lister Research Summit. So good to see the way in which material from the Armitt Library archive and the newly published Rydal Journals are informing new research 📚🍃
on Anne Lister and Dorothy Wordsworth at the Anne Lister Research Summit. So good to see the way in which material from the Armitt Library archive and the newly published Rydal Journals are informing new research 📚🍃
October 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Absolutely brilliant talk by my doctoral student @whitbyabi.bsky.social
on Anne Lister and Dorothy Wordsworth at the Anne Lister Research Summit. So good to see the way in which material from the Armitt Library archive and the newly published Rydal Journals are informing new research 📚🍃
on Anne Lister and Dorothy Wordsworth at the Anne Lister Research Summit. So good to see the way in which material from the Armitt Library archive and the newly published Rydal Journals are informing new research 📚🍃
Interesting Guardian article by Sarah Hall for MA students past and present Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels
Environmental fiction is booming – but can it move beyond dystopia to a brighter vision of the future?
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October 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Interesting Guardian article by Sarah Hall for MA students past and present Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...