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Many people visiting Elizabeth Gaskell's House with children will be familiar with our cat trail; spotting toy cats in every room, each one appropriately dressed for their surroundings, along with puzzles, jokes and crafty things to do. But what do we know

The Drawing Room wallpaper at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House has always held a fascination for me, and a few weeks ago I had the pleasure of talking to two members of the team from Bruce Fine Papers who produced this beautiful heritage paper.

As we mentioned in Part 1 of this blog, for the past three years we have been able to repair some of the most interesting titles in the book collection thanks to generous sponsorship by Friends and volunteers. Over the course of

For the past three years we have been able to repair some of the most interesting titles in the book collection thanks to generous sponsorship by Friends and volunteers. Diana Ashcroft and I, who volunteer at Elizabeth Gaskell's House, have researched the

I recently went to Nottingham for a couple of days with a friend who lives in the opposite side of the country. We like to meet up annually, sometimes choosing places we don’t know, where we  hope to find  interesting things to