A Regency Rose
Whilst choosing photographs for our new postcard collection, Jackie Tucker, one of our Gardening Volunteers (and member of the Gaskell Society), shared the following titbit as to the origin of the George IV Rose featured in the photograph. In his eighth edition
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A Licence to Draw
Have you ever wanted to record your memories of a visit using your own sketches and illustrations? If the answer is yes then you might be interested in joining our new Sketching Elizabeth Gaskell's House Workshop on Friday 10 November led by
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Learn English through Creative Writing
Liam Starkey will be leading our new English through Creative Writing Course which starts on 1 November. We invited Liam to to tell us more about the course. "I've been teaching English for 2 years now. This partly grew out of my
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Have you heard about the time Charlotte Brontë hid behind the curtain?
This wonderful Charlotte Brontë doll has been knitted by Gillian, a very talented lady from Crochet, Chat, Coffee, Cake.. with extra Knit and Natter. She didn't have a pattern and just knitted the doll from a Google image of Charlotte Brontë. We believe
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Book Cleaning
Some of you may have noticed the images we've been sharing on social media during our recent annual book clean of the books in William Gaskell's Study following a training session we held for volunteers earlier in the summer. Chris Bamber, one
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