Category: Jane Austen

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…

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…