PATRICK TOLFREE ESSAY COMPETITION 2025 - Call for submissions Follow this link for further details - hardysociety.org/oxo/742/patric…

Great to hear on #worldtheatreday2025 that my 5 minute monologue about mums, #dyslexia & #ThomasHardy is going to be played on the Leo Ulph show on BBC Radio Solent & other local #radio stations tonight & on Saturday! 😊 BBC Upload Thomas Hardy Society #theatre bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k…

In Hardy’s 'Figure in the Scene', what seems permanently set in print is more mutable than we think. In fact, the word ‘immutable’ was Hardy’s 5th choice of wording in this late draft. Toby Jones as Thomas Hardy in Dead Poets Live: The Haunter #poetry #drama #Hardy

The Spring 2025 journal has started to arrive on your doorsteps 🌸 Here’s it in its full glory in the quad of St Edmund Hall, photo courtesy of Léonor-Jo Barnard (Léonor), one of our fantastic contributors this issue!

Enormously pleased to have received this, my first issue of the Hardy Society Journal as Editor, through the post today!

We are looking for a part-time Collections Assistant to join the team here at DHC to help with work on the Wessex Water archive until March 2027. Information about the post is available here: orlo.uk/21CLV Applications close on Sunday 27 April 2025.

Virtuosic and melodic stage adaptation & performance of Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, all parts played by just 5 actors of the Conn Artists Theatre Company, at the delightfully art deco Albany Theatre in Coventry & on tour @HardySociety👏🐑🧑‍🌾🪈🪗

Photos from our recent Jude the Obscure Study Day - a great time was had by all! The Jude Study Day allowed for an eclectic range of discussion and debate around the novel and included talks, walks, and a lovely meal at the King’s Arms

Thomas Hardy birthday celebrations to kick off with special lecture ift.tt/zH4xq86

The full programme listing has been released for the upcoming event on 7th May, featuring a keynote from Prof. R Ebbatson: 'Ever the Road: Hardy & Edward Thomas'. For more details see here: c19group.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2025/05/01/eve…

COMPETITION: The Thomas Hardy Society, Patrick Tolfree Essay Competition 2025 (Deadline: 1 October 2025) victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/com…

Thomas Hardy, born 2 June 1840, wrote poetry and several of his early short stories in the cottage in Upper Bockhampton, Dorest, England, where he was spent his early life. National Trust Thomas Hardy Society NT Hardy's Cottage

A repost for Thomas Hardy's birthday. #thomashardy #thomashardypoetry #beenycliff Thomas Hardy Society #poetry #poemoftheday #poemaday #poetrycommunity #poem #dailypost #dailypoem #dailypoems #writing #worldofpoetry #poemadaychallenge #inspiration #poetryinstagram #instapoet

Thomas Hardy, born #OTD 2 June 1840 Wishing one of Britain’s greatest writers a very happy 185th birthday.

Thomas Hardy was born #OTD 2 June 1840. If I was sent to a desert island and could only take half a dozen books with me, one of them would be 'Under The Greenwood Tree', 1872. It's a lovely book, a tale to reread in winter, a vivid story of rural characters and their

It is an Englishman that is the ghost that must haunt the Nobel Prize-givers' consciences. That Englishman is Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy is too old now for the prize to do him any good. But he could do a great deal of good to the prize. — Ernest Hemingway, saluting Thomas Hardy

Join Dorset Archives Trust for a fascinating evening on Thurs 11 Sept at 7pm. Dr Ruth Burton will be talking about the conclusion of the Thomas Hardy project and the newly launched catalogue. Learn more and book your ticket here: orlo.uk/sujn7