A great way to organise your Beatrix Potter Society Journal and Newsletters is with our lovely binders! beatrixpottersociety.org.uk/shop-online/mi…

Thimble Hall in Hawkshead was owned by Beatrix Potter and appeared in her 1929 book The Fairy Caravan as Misses Pussycats' Shop. Beatrix Potter left Thimble Hall to the National Trust.

On 20 May of 1896 Beatrix Potter visited Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with her uncle, Sir Henry Roscoe. She showed her fungus drawings to Director, W. Thiselton-Dyer. They wrote their names in the guest book at Kew Gardens. #kewgardens #kewgardenslondon

Daito Bunka University Beatrix Potter Reference Library in Higashimatsuyama City, Japan. Thanks to Beatrix Potter Society Member Yoshie and the staff at the library, we have pictures of the Beatrix Potter Rose in bloom. daito.ac.jp/potter/

⭐️The following article is written by Hollie Barker from Hill Top House. Hollie tells us about the transcribing project the Hill Top team completed by using some of the loose fragments of the code writing Beatrix Potter did when she was younger. beatrixpottersociety.org.uk/news/cracking-…

On 25 May, 1919, Frederick Warne & Company Limited is registered in London. Before 1919, the publisher of the Beatrix Potter books was known as Frederick Warne & Company (without the Limited). You can spot the difference in these two books.

On this day in 1920, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley died, aged sixty-nine. He was a good friend of Beatrix Potter and one of the founders of The National Trust. nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/histo…

Beatrix Potter Society Member, Angela Bettink, speaks about the art of Beatrix Potter. A very special thank you to The Linder Foundation, without whom this film would not have been possible! youtu.be/hfSkjnMR1D4?fe…

🗞️Beatrix Potter Society Australian Liasion Officer Lynne Moriarty visits The Lake District! 🌏Read more about her amazing journey below! timesandstar.co.uk/news/25191507.…

🌳 Zoom Event, The Royal Oak Foundation: Revealing Forgotten Stories through Conservation: Secrets of the National Trust Collection 🗓️ 4 June at 12:00pm (Zoom rental available through 30 June at 11:30pm) royal-oak.org/event/zoom-ren…

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🎥We are honored to share this beautiful video with our followers! One of our treasured members from Australia, Lisa, has made the most wonderful video about The Beatrix Potter Society. 🌷Thank you for sharing this with us, Lisa! youtu.be/BeFiriCHVww?fe…

🪿In June of 1910, Beatrix Potter registered a Jemima Puddle-Duck doll at the Patent Office.

⛺️Did you know that BP allowed Girl Guides to camp on her land? 📰In our Newsletter from Oct 1990, two women gave their accounts of their time with Beatrix 📍Publications: 1990-1999, then select No. 38 beatrixpottersociety.org.uk/publications/ 📸Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature” by Linda Lear.

🎂 On this day in 1928, Maurice Sendak was born. An American author and illustrator, he was greatly influenced by Beatrix Potter and had a deep admiration for her. This book by Judy Taylor features a fantastic paper that Sendak delivered about Beatrix.

Inspired by Beatrix, new blog post is up! beatrixpottersociety.org.uk/news/linden-ac… #bookart #beatrixpotter #embroidery

☕️On Monday 16 June, The Beatrix Potter Society will be hosting the inaugural ‘Talking Beatrix’ online gathering! 🕰️7:00 p.m BST (2:00 p.m EDT) For this first session, we will make introductions, learn about how members became interested in Beatrix. 🌷We hope to see you there!

Happy Father’s Day! Below is a lovely letter from Rupert Potter, Beatrix’s father, to young Beatrix. Did you know that you can see this letter in-person, at the V&A Museum in London? collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1552553/…

On Sunday, the gardens at Gwaenynog were open to visitors. This home in Wales once belonged to Beatrix Potter’s Aunt and Uncle, Harriett (née Leech) and Fred Burton. The gardens at were the inspiration for Beatrix’s illustrations in The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies. 📸 The BPS

“She said they aren’t worth half a crown!” 89-year-old Mary Rogerson, housekeeper to Beatrix Potter for 30 years spoke to Joan Bakewell about her memories of that time and about the author’s surprising views on her own work.