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Saturday 21st - 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.

We are also holding the 2nd annual

Jane Austen Birthday Ball & Weekend

Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th January 2025

Tickets for the ball are now on sale from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/alton-jane-austen

Full details of the other events making up the Jane Austen Birthday Ball Weekend will be advertised on this website and on our Facebook page. Tickets for the ball sell quickly, so get in early to avoid disappointment.

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 Oats Collection; The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of the Resurrection, Alton.