JANE AUSTEN
BIRTHDAY BALL WEEKEND

SATURDAY 18th - SUNDAY 19th JANUARY 2025

The Jane Austen Birthday Ball will be on Saturday 18th January 2025 at Alton Assembly Rooms. Doors open at 7pm for start at 7.30pm; break for buffet at half time (included in cost) with drinks available from licenced cash bar.

TICKET SALES ARE NOW CLOSED

Our Ticket Source Page (for future reference): www.ticketsource.co.uk/alton-jane-austen

The weekend's activities (with links to event pages):

Saturday 18th January 2025

• Jane Austen collection of books to view at Alton Library (10am - 4pm) - also Children's craft activities
• Tour of St Lawrence Church with local historian Jane Hurst (12 noon) £5
• Cream Teas at Alton House Hotel (3.30pm - 5pm) £16.50
• Jane Austen Birthday Ball at Alton Assembly Rooms (7.30pm -11pm) £70
  • Also 'Small but Deadly' Regency-style jewellery at the ball venue
• Vanity Hair Parlour Pop-up Salon- hairdressing bookings ready for the ball (1pm - 5.30pm) £45

Sunday 19th January 2025

• Jane Austen 'Emma' Film at Allen Gallery (2.30pm) £7
• Choral Evensong at St Lawrence Church (6pm) Free entry

Over both days: Jane Austen's House open - Chawton House open for tours.

JANE AUSTEN REGENCY WEEK

FRIDAY 20th - SUNDAY 29th JUNE 2025

The Jane Austen Regency Week is a 10-day festival held annually each June in Alton, Chawton and Selborne in Hampshire (UK). Please come back to this website in 2025 to see our varied programme of walks, dancing, tours, talks and much more - all will be listed in the Events section of this website.

If you would like to wear your Regency attire to events, please feel free to do so. Rest assured, you won't be the only person wearing costume. In fact, we actively encourage it.

We invite you to explore this site to find out about the Jane Austen Regency Week. You can see programmes for past events going back to 2008 in the Archive section.

The Jane Austen Regency Week celebrates both our local internationally-acclaimed writer, and a very interesting period of history, encouraging people to explore their cultural heritage.

The Jane Austen Regency Week is run by by a group of volunteers and participating organisations under the auspices of the Alton Jane Austen Group. It is funded through ticket sales, sponsorship and advertising.

Some of the events are run by registered charities who receive the ticket income as part of their fund-raising activities: Jane Austen's House Museum (CIO); Chawton House; Hampshire Cultural Trust; Gilbert White and the Oates Collections; The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of the Resurrection, Alton.