Festival images 2012 Jane Austen Festival Festival Images 2012
Our professional photographer Owen Benson has loaded all of his fantastic images to an online site for you to enjoy. Just go into the galleries and look around. Image Galleries
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Pride and Prejudice Readathon Readathon event to celebrate Jane Austen's bi-centenary
The Jane Austen Centre in Bath is to host an event that will be broadcast around the world -a 12 Hour International Readathon.
January 28th 2013 sees the 200th anniversary of the publication of J...
Festival Promenade best ever Hundreds of costumed Jane Austen fans took part in the Grand Festival Promenade.
The Promenade traditionally opens the Jane Austen Festival
Adrian Lukis (Wickham) to appear at Jane Austen Festival Amongst the 60 or so events crammed into this year’s annual Jane Austen Festival in Bath will be the special appearance by actor Adrian Lukis (George Wickham in the BBC 1995 adaptation of P&P). Very appropriate as this year marks the 200th anniversary...
With a Flourish! Killer Bees and Jane Austen make their mark on Women's day
In the church of St Michael's Without, from 10am to 6pm yesterday, works by 100 women were read out by volunteers ... A passage from "Pride and Prejudice" was recited with a fine flourish by Jac...
Jane Austen Centre on TV - again Caroline Smailes at book launchHow will it all end?
Take a look at this BBC Breakfast news item. Caroline Smailes, has a new novel which offers readers a variety of different endings - 11 in all. The item is supported by a visit to The Jane Austen Cent...
He's in the news again Martin Salter our Meeter/Greeter gets on the TV again with presenter Amanda Vickery. Take a look.
Martin on the television We knew it would happen. Our Meeter/Greeter Martin Salter has been recognised as England's most photographed man.
- The Festival starts with a splash!
Wow, what a start. Despite a bit of rain the promenaders turned out in their finery to celebrate the start of the Jane Austen Festival.
Click here to go to the full story from the Bath Chronicle....
- Miriam O'Reilly our 2009 Cover Girl
Miriam O'Reilly spent a day with the Jane Austen Festival in 2008 and the results of the filming were shown on Countryfile later in the year. The programme has since been repeated several times and it is due to Miriam's superb reporting that attend...
- Regency Ball June 2010
The Jane Austen Festival in Bath is ten years old and to celebrate this milestone we held a Regency Costumed Ball in The Guildhall on Saturday 19th June 2010
Pre-Ball Dance Workshop in the afternoon
To get us in the mood we held a dance workshop in th...
- Guinness World Record
It's official!
The largest gathering of people dressed in Regency costumes was achieved by 409 participants, for the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, UK, on 19 September 2009
The previous record stood at 200 people and on a beautiful sunny day in Septemb...