The week in theatre: Player Kings; Red Pitch; Underdog: The Other Other Brontë – review
Underdog: The Other Other Brontë review – modern mashup pits deceitful sister as a ruthless rival
March 2024
Wuthering fights: the play that shows the Brontës were bigger backstabbers than the Kardashians
Rivalries, putdowns, betrayals … director Natalie Ibu explains why she is thrilled to be making her National Theatre debut with an award-winning play about the famous writing sisters
November 2023
Campaigners save Bradford birthplace of Brontë sisters
Crowdfunding and significant donation from Nigel West – who has a family connection to Charlotte’s husband – secure property, with plans to transform it into a cultural and education centre
October 2023
Reader, they lived there: campaign to save Brontës’ Bradford birthplace as it goes on sale
A crowdfunding drive led by TV presenter Christa Ackroyd aims to make the first Bradford home of the literary siblings a tourist destination and source of inspiration
May 2023
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: The North Wind by Anne Brontë
This free-spirited romantic adventure story is one of Anne Brontë’s ‘Gondal poems’
October 2022
The Moors review – deliciously dark Brontë pastiche
The characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie movie
June 2022
Ten reasons why Bradford deserves to be 2025’s city of culture
From Charlotte Brontë to David Hockney and Zayn Malik, my home town of Bradford has a rich cultural history – and its beauty is balm for the soul
May 2022
Student helps reveal Anne Brontë’s skills in geology
Sally Jaspars says novelist’s rock collection shows youngest Brontë sister ‘was in tune with the scientific inquiry of the time’
April 2022
I Am No Bird review – stripping back the Brontës’ chocolate-box history
This anarchic show casts off the corsets to capture just what made these literary sisters so striking
July 2021
Book of the day
Walking the Invisible by Michael Stewart review – following in the Brontës’ footsteps
A walking tour of the north of England becomes a celebration of the Brontës’ work and a love letter to the wily, windy places that inspired them
June 2021
UK libraries and museums unite to save ‘astonishing’ lost library from private buyers
Friends of the National Libraries launch ‘once in a generation’ effort to raise £15m to buy the Honresfield library, packed with works by Brontë sisters, Jane Austen and Walter Scott
May 2021
‘Priceless’ Brontë manuscripts could be lost to private buyer, warn experts
Historic holdings including handwritten poems by Emily Brontë are set to be auctioned by Sotheby’s, but MPs are being urged to save them for the public
Emily Brontë’s handwritten poems are highlight of ‘lost library’ auction
Collection of rare books and manuscripts first assembled by Charlotte Brontë’s widower has been out of public view for nearly a century
Salman Rushdie and Bernardine Evaristo on shortlist for more diverse UK exam texts
OCR board asks teachers to vote on books to make A-level and GCSE English courses more inclusive
September 2020
'Let me in – let me in!' Wuthering Heights house for sale at £1m
TS Eliot estate steps in to help Brontë Parsonage Museum rescue appeal
February 2020
Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg review – inside the Brontës’ dreamworld
In a Brontë fantasy world: an extract from Isabel Greenberg's Glass Town
June 2019
Revealed: smuggling past of the Brontë sisters’ grandfather
Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre might never have been published without patriarch’s ‘dirty money’, says new book
