Working with Ed Lab at MMU
At the end of 2017 we began working with a group of students from the EdLab (School of Childhood, Youth and Education Studies) at Manchester Metropolitan University in order to develop the houses's resources and activities for when children visit with their
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A City that Boasts Many Diversions…..
We were incredibly excited to see Elizabeth Gaskell's House featured in the New York Times over the Christmas period as part of feature on 36 hours in Manchester. The journalist writes that visiting Manchester "is an exercise in peeling back layers of
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Installation of della Robbia style Altarpiece
In 1898, Elizabeth Gaskell’s daughters, Meta and Julia, purchased a nineteenth century della Robbia style altarpiece which was gifted to the recently founded Whitworth Art Gallery. In a happy reversal of generosity, it has now been given to Elizabeth Gaskell’s House by
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Saying goodbye to William
On Friday last week we said goodbye to the William Gaskell portrait that's been hanging in the study as it is returning to Manchester Art Gallery for an exhibition in the spring - but don't worry he will be coming back to
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Bonnets at Dawn
We are delighted to welcome the Literary Thunderdome that is Bonnets at Dawn to Elizabeth Gaskell’s House for a week from 3 December. Lauren Burke and Hannah Chapman (aka Bonnets at Dawn) go head to head to compare and contrast the lives
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