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What’s On

  • All
  • 10-year Anniversary
  • Exhibition
  • Family Friendly
  • Performance
  • Talks
  • Tour
  • Workshops

Textile Art Celebrating Trailblazing Women

4th January - 31st October

Exhibition of textile work created by the Trailblazing Stitching group.

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V Anne Brontë – Monsters and Madmen

Wednesday 21 October, 7-8pm

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V Anne Bronte - Monsters and Madmen

Online Talk: Victorian Gothic – Haunted Houses and Night-time Terrors

Wednesday 28 October, 7-8pm

Online Talk: Victorian Gothic Fiction

Silly and Spooky Sill-Haunters: October Half-Term

25 October - 1 November (Weds, Thurs & Sun)

October Family Activities

Charlotte Brontë & Elizabeth Gaskell Twilight Tour

29th October

After hours tour on Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë

Christmas at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

See our beautiful House decked out in Christmas splendour.

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V George Eliot – The Moorland Cottage V The Mill on the Floss

Wednesday 18 November, 7-8pm

Online Event: Elizabeth Gaskell V George Eliot

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House Online Book Group

Third Thursday of the month

We read (and re-read) classic works of fiction. New members welcome.

Online Event: A Victorian Christmas with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

Wed 2 December, 7-8pm

Online Event: A Victorian Christmas with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

Bricks & Paper: A Story in Light

12th March - 13th March

External art projection experience - two nights only!

The guides brought the home alive. It was inspiring to hear about this woman and extraordinary family

Visitor to the House in 2021