39. A Year in the Life of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
21-27 July 2025 The summer holidays are here and it's the start of the great six week 'child-care' juggle as I call it! Anyway, Manchester schools only finished mid-week, so although we did offer family activities this week there wasn't much take-up
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14 -18 July 2025 As the weeks continue to tumble into July all focus is on the impending summer holidays and our family workshops during August. The 2500 leaflets came back from the printers and we sent out 500 to each of
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A Letter from Julia Gaskell
Over the past year a number of unpublished letters from Elizabeth’s daughters have been brought to our notice. Last year, for example, a letter from Meta (Margaret) Gaskell was discovered in a volume of Ruth and Other Tales. The latest discovery came
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7-11 July 2025 After the excitement of the exhibition launch last week, I must admit I was feeling a little frazzled at the start of the week, not helped that it was my birthday over the weekend, as well. There seemed to
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What’s the Story? How Oasis and Elizabeth Gaskell taught the world to speak Manc
I’ve often joked to myself about the comparisons you can draw between two Mancunian legends who are close to my heart - Oasis and Elizabeth Gaskell. It was the announcement of the longed-for Oasis reunion that made me think I'd waited long
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