Highlights of the past quarter of a century of the Ilkley Literature Festival have been commemorated in pictures and words.

The event, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, launched a new exhibition and book last night to mark the occasion.

The mainly photographic exhibition at the Manor House Museum in Ilkley, called An Outpost of Progress, features the work of Bradford photographer Louise Naylor, 22, who documented the festival's anniversary year.

It also includes memorabilia, commissions, artwork and photographs from the past 25 years and there is also a reading area where visitors can sit down and browse through books and cuttings.

The festival, which is the oldest-established event of its kind in the North of England, has also published a potted history of the past 25 years, edited by its chairman Brian Lawrence and including a photographic record of the key moments of 1998.

And last night also saw the premiere of Finding A Voice, a one-woman play commissioned as part of the celebrations, at Ilkley Playhouse. The performance, featuring actress Polly Hemingway, is repeated again tonight at 8pm.

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