Kira Welland

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: https://loom.ly/sm_pXiU

#naturewriting #volunteering #LakeDistrict

📸 George Carr

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

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 📚🍃

Newly advertised part-time Museum Assistant (Marketing & Content) job opportunity at The Armitt Museum & Library in Ambleside. Deadline for applications: 3rd October. See here for further details: uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c...

Against a red background with falling leaves and books, white text in the top right corner reads: "Litfest Autumn Weekend 17-21 October & 18 November 2025" In the bottom left corner is the Litfest logo and website www.litfest.org. On the three largest leaves is white text "Sarah Hall. Simon Armitage, Xiaolu Guo

It's here! Welcome to the Lancaster Litfest Autumn Weekend 2025, running 17-21 October and 18 November. Ft Sarah Hall, Simon Armitage, @oliverklangmead.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com Xiaolu Guo @malikalnasir.bsky.social & more!

Browse the full programme and get your tickets now! litfest.org

We're recruiting 🔔 Thanks to internal staff promotion, we're looking for a part time Administration Officer to join us in our Kendal Office. Check out our website for more details of this job: https://loom.ly/DnAm1-k

#workforus #administration #recruiting

We're recruiting 🔔 Thanks to internal staff promotion, we're looking for a part time Administration Officer to join us in our Kendal Office. Check out our website for more details of this job: https://loom.ly/DnAm1-k

#workforus #administration #recruiting

Photograph credit: Shaw and Shaw

The first event in our 2025-26 Cultural Landscapes series will be a talk by @pollyrowena.bsky.social: ‘Companions of nature: sickbed consolations & mimic hootings', on Tue 7 Oct (6.30pm) at our Ambleside campus. Details & booking link for this free event here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...

We'll have early paperbacks of #TheCompanyOfOwls at this event in Ambleside on 7th October - it's free to attend and open to anyone - come along if you can! #DorothyWordsworth #RomanticLegacies #LakeDistrictLit #CumbriaCulture #LakePoets #NatureWriting #Memoir #Biography #BookSky

An evening with Rydal Mount's poet in residence, Kieron Winn. At 4pm on Saturday 13th September, Kieron Winn will read from his new collection of poems, No Time, in Wordsworth’s beautiful drawing room.

🥂 It's time for another Rydal Mount Poetry Evening!

📖 This Saturday at 4pm, Kieron Winn will read from his new collection of poems, 'No Time', in our beautiful drawing room at Rydal Mount. Admission to the reading is free. Come along and hear poems about love, holidays, family, Grasmere, and home.

"[August] 24th, Sunday. A fine cool pleasant breezy day - walked in the wood in the morning ... I was ill in the afternoon and lay down - got up restored by a sound sleep." 🖋

📔 'Dorothy Wordsworth's Illustrated Lakeland Journals' (1991).

🍃 Dorothy's journal entry, 225 years ago today.
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Webinar ⚠️ Join our engagement lead Kay for a look at the troubling issue of litter and anti-social behaviour (such as fly camping and open fires) in the landscape. We'll share feedback from our recent survey and explore what can be done.

Book here for free: https://loom.ly/Kkt8dPc

Wednesday this week…meet the author. Part of a series of fascinating free events in the Lake District. RT pls @lakedistrict.bsky.social @ucuuoc.bsky.social @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Image reads IHR Creigton Lecture 2025. Doing History with Poetry. A conversations with Catherine Clarke and Hannah Lowe. 9 September 18:00 - 19:30, Chancellor's Hall, Senate House. There is an image of a book entitled A History of England in 25 Poems which shows illustrations in bird silhouettes with the title ribboning in between. There are black and white photographs of Catherine Clarke and of Hannah Lowe. There is also some text which can be found by clicking the link to the web page.

What happens if we do #history through #poetry? What new stories come into focus? Whose voices do we hear? Join us for the 2025 Creighton Lecture: historian Catherine Clarke & poet Hannah Lowe in conversation with IHR Director Claire Langhamer. All welcome. Book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Four costumed members of the Lakeland Dialect Society read from the Grasmere Dialect Plays, in an event at the Armitt Museum, introduced by Sue Wilkinson (right, at lectern). Two of the players - a man and a woman - are reading from scripts, in front of bookcases (and a projector screen) in the Armitt Library

Over on @grasdialectplays.bsky.social you can find lots of photos from fabulous readings - by members of the Lakeland Dialect Society - from the Grasmere Dialect Plays. Podcast coming soon: watch this space!

Three costumed actors, reading from scripts, in front of bookcases. Older man on left, younger man in centre, older woman on right.

Will Dinah marry Gawin, or his nephew, Kit? (Act IV, "On Second Thoughts")
Another picture from yesterday's readings from the Grasmere Dialect Plays at the Armitt Museum, Ambleside.
L to R: John Campbell (Gawin), Phillip Gate (Kit), & Jean Scott-Smith (Dinah).
Watch out for the podcast!

The exterior of the large red-brick manor house at Mottisfont on a sunny summers day. The house is seen from across a lawn which is dry and patchy, with has revealed the shape of buried walls beneath the ground.

Remnants of the past revealed through grass - take a look at these parch marks at Mottisfont in Hampshire!

Where the walls of former Medieval monastery buildings lie underground, the grass on top dries out quicker than the surrounding areas.

"...Her whose eyes
Saw light through every wildering maze uncouth." 🖋

📕 'Suspiria', Edward Quillinan.

🎊 Happy 221st Birthday Dora Quillinan née Wordsworth!

Wordsworth Poetry Reading - Rydal | Rydal Mount An unforgettable evening of evocative poetry read in Wordsworth’s last and favourite home.

📚 It is just one week until our next Poetry Evening at Rydal Mount! If you're 'in quest of known and unknown things' like our Dorothy, come along for an evening of poetry, history, and delicious gingerbread.

🎟 Tickets are available at: www.rydalmount.co.uk/wordsworth-p...

A wonderful start to the Wordsworth Summer Conference yesterday at Rydal Hall, with this gorgeous sight on the way home...

...is that perhaps gold at the end of the rainbow? 🌈 ✨️

Looking forward to welcoming the conference to RM on Saturday!

'...No longer, scattering to the heedless winds
The vocal raptures of fresh poesy,
Shall he frequent these precincts...' 🖊

📘 'The massy Ways, carried across these heights', William Wordsworth.

🖼 Ursula Hurst

📍The Summer House, Rydal Mount & Gardens

"- I love that house because it is
The very Mountains' child." 🖊

📔 Dorothy Wordsworth, 'Grasmere - A Fragment'.

🖌 Last night I had the privilege of attending Wordsworth Grasmere's event 'The Time Lab: Museum Late'. This was a part of resident artist Stacey Rossouw's evolving exhibition exploring Wordsworth's 'spots of time' through multiple artistic mediums.

🥂Thank you to everyone for such a fantastic event!

In an age where walking is once again praised for its physical and mental benefits, #JaneAusten's fiction reminds us that these virtues are not new. Her characters have been walking for centuries.

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✍️Nada Saadaoui

Via The Conversation

Time travel is real. It’s just hidden behind that creaky oak door labelled ‘staff only’.

'Yet still a lurking wish prevails,
That, when from life we all have passed
The Friends who loved thy Father's name
On her's a thought may cast.' 🖊

📗 'To Dora Wordsworth', Dorothy Wordsworth, June 1832.

'With busy eyes I pierced the lane
In quest of known and unknown things,'

🖊 Dorothy Wordsworth, 'Thoughts on my sick-bed' (1832)

🖼 Ursula Hurst

Announcement of an event - readings from the Grasmere Dialect Plays - on 13 August, 2-4 pm, Armitt Museum, Ambleside. Illustrated with a photograph of a young man and woman in a hayfield, taken from one of the original productions of the plays

Some details about the Grasmere Dialect Plays - to be featured at a reading on on 13 August, 2-4 pm, Armitt Museum, Ambleside. Illustrated with a photograph of a young man and woman in a hayfield, taken from one of the original productions of the plays

Do come along to this event on 13 August at the Armiit Museum in Ambleside. I guarantee it'll be fun!
Tickets: www.armitt.com/event-direct... (scroll down)

"... For my lot
Then was, within the famed Egerian Grot
To sit and muse, fanned by its dewy air"

📔 'Composed at Rydal on May Morning', William Wordsworth

📍Rydal Hall

After the gorgeous (but scorching) weather of last week, it's lovely to feel Rydal returning to its usual cardigan weather - and yes, of course it has to be on theme 💐🌿⛅️