Kira Welland
@kirawelland.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher at the University of Cumbria, investigating the spatial contexts of Rydal Mount and how these influence the writings of Mary, Dorothy, and Dora Wordsworth.
House Guide at Rydal Mount & Gardens.
House Guide at Rydal Mount & Gardens.
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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/
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/
Events
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) –…
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January 11, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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/
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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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
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
January 1, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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
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
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Spirit of the old new year
December 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Spirit of the old new year
"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'.
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'.
January 1, 2026 at 6:04 PM
"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'.
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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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
📸Chris Howe
December 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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
📸Chris Howe
"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 ❤️
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 ❤️
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
"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 ❤️
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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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/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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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...
'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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November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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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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
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
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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
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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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
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems #book #history #event
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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
#AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems #book #history #event
"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.
📔 Dorothy Wordsworth, 1st November 1802.
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"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.
📔 Dorothy Wordsworth, 1st November 1802.
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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
#naturewriting #volunteering #LakeDistrict
📸 George Carr
September 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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
#naturewriting #volunteering #LakeDistrict
📸 George Carr
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The weather forecast for next week is very good but until then, another day of this to get through. Derwentwater, Cumbria today.
September 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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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 📚🍃
Exciting news: I've got a 3-page article on the Grasmere Dialect Plays in the Oct 2025 issue of 'Cumbria Life' magazine! Really hoping this will bring them to a wider audience @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social @countrystride.bsky.social
For more on the Plays, head over to @grasdialectplays.bsky.social
For more on the Plays, head over to @grasdialectplays.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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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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...
September 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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...
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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
Browse the full programme and get your tickets now! litfest.org
September 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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
Browse the full programme and get your tickets now! litfest.org
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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
#workforus #administration #recruiting
September 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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
#workforus #administration #recruiting
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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
#workforus #administration #recruiting
September 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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
#workforus #administration #recruiting
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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...
September 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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...
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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
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...
September 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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
🥂 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.
📖 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.
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.
www.rydalmount.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
🥂 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.
📖 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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📔 'Dorothy Wordsworth's Illustrated Lakeland Journals' (1991).
🍃 Dorothy's journal entry, 225 years ago today.
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August 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"[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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📔 '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
Book here for free: https://loom.ly/Kkt8dPc
August 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
Book here for free: https://loom.ly/Kkt8dPc
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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
Meet the author..the fascinating David Howe @davidprf.bsky.social is guest at the Burn How Hotel book session on Weds Aug 27, 7pm, it's free, all welcome. David wrote the glorious "Rocks & Rain, Reason & Romance", one of the best ever books about the Lakes. Pls share. @lakedistrict.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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
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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/...
August 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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/...