WILLIAM Atkins will showcase his new book The Moor: Lives Landscape, Literature as part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum's contemporary arts programme.

He relates his journey on foot through Britain's moorlands from the southwest tip to the Scottish borders, exploring moorland’s uniquely captivating position in our literature, history and psyche.

In Haworth he will focus on moorland literature, bringing in literary works such as Wuthering Heights, Hound of the Baskervilles and Lorna Doone.

The Moor was described by The Guardian as "an ambitious mix of history, topography, literary criticism and nature writing”.

The event is at West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth, on April 17 at 7.30pm.

Emma Butcher will speak about the latest Brontë Parsonage Museum exhibition, The Brontës And War, on June 5 at 3pm.

Exhibition co-curator Emma will look closely at the military material the Brontës read, revealing how their interest in war extended far beyond the realms of the recent Napoleonic conflicts, and reached as far back as classical times.

Novelist Patricia Duncker gives the Brontë Society’s annual lecture on Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and the Gothic, on June 6 at 10am.

Patricia’s own latest novel, Sophie And The Sibyl, is set in 19th century Berlin and paints a vivid picture of the enigmatic, magnetic and widely celebrated author George Eliot.

Diane Howse’s exhibition The Silent Wild will run from June 19 to September 25 at the museum, using text, performance, film and sound to explore the sonic landscapes within the Brontës’ texts.

Diane Howse is based in Yorkshire and works as both an artist and curator.