Description
Heritage researcher and Brontë Birthplace General Manager Anna Gibson explores the uncanny pull of Brontë Country, a landscape shaped as much by longing and myth as by history.
Drawing on her experiences living, working and walking across Brontë Country, she examines how moors, memories and cherished objects become charged with meaning.
Join her to discuss how the Brontës’ presence continues to haunt cultural memory, tourism and heritage practice today.
About the Speaker
Anna Gibson
Anna Gibson is the first General Manager of the Brontë Birthplace in Thornton, Bradford. An MA graduate in Heritage Studies from the University of Manchester, Gibson oversees the historic house where Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne Brontë were born. Acquired with support from over 700 individual investors and major funders, the Brontë Birthplace opened to the public in March 2025
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