Work Placement from Wright Robinson
As a current student in Year 10, I successfully engaged myself on work experience at the Elizabeth Gaskell House from the 17/07/2019 till the 23/07/2019.Throughout this working session, I would say that I have enjoyed working at Elizabeth Gaskell House and helping
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Soaking up the Atmosphere – Observational drawing with TLC St Lukes
As part of our Ruskin Sharing heritage project local community group TLC St Lukes are delivering a multi-media observational project in partnership with their Breathing Spaces Project. The group returned again to Elizabeth Gaskell's House last week for the third in the series
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Work Experience
From the week beginning on 11/07/19 and ending on 17/07/19 I had done work experience at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House. I had been doing multiple jobs to help out throughout the week; these included working in the tea room during the open days,
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Exploring John Ruskin’s Brantwood
Ruskin was one of the most remarkable men, not only of England and our time, but of all countries and all times. He was one of those rare men who think with their hearts, and so he thought and said not only
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s lady’s maid – a dramatic imagining
The background: earlier this year, the House was successful in securing funding from the Arts Council for a collaborative programme of arts activities which included a series of creative writing workshops. These used the current House exhibition, Household Commotion - Elizabeth Gaskell and the 'awful
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