Certificate of Excellence The Regency Tea Room at the Jane Austen Centre earns the 2013 Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence. Honoured as a Top Performing Tearoom as Reviewed by Travellers on the World’s Largest Travel Site Bath, Uk – The Regency Tea Room at the Jane Aust...- Airport Bus Video Take a look at this little 1 minute video we made to show on the airport bus which runs from Bath to Bristol airport and back again. Its a bit of fun and shows Martin and Centre Guide Elle as well as the Regency Tea Room. The Jane Austen C...
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 If you would like to download high resolution images ...
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...
The Face of the Jane Austen Centre 2013 Every year at the Jane Austen Centre we select a member staff to represent us in marketing and advertising as the Face of The Jane Austen Centre.
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...
A proposal at the Centre We've just been sent some lovely photos of Zach's proposal to Julie which happened recently in the Regency Tea Room. It's so romantic. Here's what they said; We cannot express our gratitude for all that you did to make sure that our special moment w...
What would you ask Jane Austen if you could? We posed a question on our Jane Austen Facebook site recently, 'What one question would you ask Jane Austen if you could?' Well, we got some great answers
Dressing Up Regency Style with hats, bonnets, reticules and scarves We've recently added a new section to the exhibition where we allow our visitors to dress up using Regency bonnets, top hats, shawles, fans, reticules and parasols. As you would imagine, it is going down very well and everyone is having a lot of fun.
Lizzie is Back Great News, our iconic front of house mannequin 'Lizzie' is back from her Spring break and is looking good! Having had a few minor mishaps over the years including a couple of falls, we felt she needed a short vacation to bring the colour back to...
'Lizzie' is taken away It is a sad day today. This morning at 10.30am a man in a van came and took away our 'Lizzie'.
Ebay Jane Austen Auction outcomes Film costumes are being despatched to all parts of the globe this week as the ebay Jane Austen costume winners celebrate their good fortune.
Film Costumes up for Auction on Ebay A selection Jane Austen Film Costumes from BAFTA and Emmy award winning designer Andrea Galer go up for auction on ebay in March.
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...
Jane Austen Festival Video recording last year's events Photographer, film maker and friend of the Festival Owen Benson has edited together some highlights of last year's Jane Austen Festival. Such a colourful event with costumes, music, food and dance in abundance.
Free Iphone App The Jane Austen Centre in Bath has been busy working on an Iphone app which will deliver a witty or meaningful quote from Jane Austen's novels or letters to your phone every day.
Now he's a cartoon character! Our very own Meeter/Greeter Martin Salter has been immortalised as a cartoon character by Perry Harris and can be seen on his Twitter site. He surely must be 'England's most photographed man'. I was surprised to see Martin looking at me from the wa...
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....
- England's Most Photographed Man Well he's finally been recognised for what he undoubtedly is, 'England's Most Photographed Man'. How great that Martin Salter the cheery Meeter/Greeter at the Centre is rightly lauded for his work. Anyone else wouldn't get anything like the attention that...
- 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...
- MP visits Jane Austen Centre to promote British tourism The world of politics and literature came together in Bath last week in support of a tourism initiative. Bath MP Don Foster was promoting British Tourism Week (BTW) when he paid a visit to the city’s Jane Austen Centre and met one of the figureheads ...
- 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...
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