Category: Books & films

  • Jane Austen Festival 2025

    The 2025 Jane Austen Festival took over Bath on Saturday with the annual Grand Regency Costumed Promenade. Two thousand elegant attendees paraded through the city’s famous Georgian streets, like time-travellers come to remind us of Bath’s heyday. Admittedly, Bath’s historic visitors in those days didn’t march en masse, but still, the city’s grand architecture was…

  • Jane Austen Festival 2023

    Here are some photos from the 2023 Jane Austen Festival. The Grand Regency Costumed Promenade was a joyous spectacle of colour and costume, and the Festival Fayre was a great opportunity to see the interiors of the Assembly Rooms brought alive by crowds in historic dress – as well as a chance to stock up…

  • Bridgerton Series 3 filming in Bath – January 2023

    Bridgerton came back to Bath this week, filming scenes for Series 3. After a starring role in Series 1 and a brief appearance in Series 2 (read about Bridgerton Bath locations), it looks as though our beautiful city is one of the ingredients producers hope will make Series 3 as successful as its predecessors. Maybe…

  • Persuasion (Netflix) filming in Bath

    One of the great things about Bath is that you can watch a Jane Austen drama being filmed in the morning, stroll among elegant buildings and actors in Regency costume, and then enjoy an outdoor lunch and a walk in the countryside in the afternoon. When we saw road closure signs for two of Bath’s…