Walter Savage Landor and Elizabeth Gaskell
We have a new sundial in place at the back of the House which was put up last December with funding support from Viridor Credits. The sundial features an interesting quote - 'If you will but follow the sun all day' And
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Lancashire Day
Lancashire Day holds a proud and established history in the county, commemorating the day on which the first-elected representatives called to London by King Edward I in 1295. On 27 November we celebrate its history and how it has shaped the rest
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Finding Elizabeth Gaskell at John Rylands Library
Early in October, a group of volunteers from the House was lucky enough to visit the magnificent John Rylands Library with John Hodgson - Joint Head of Special Collections and Manuscripts and Archives Manager - and to get very close to some
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A Darwinian Discovery
Continuing with my project of cataloguing all the books in William’s study I reach four undistinguished looking brown volumes by Lord Henry Cockburn. Inside both covers of a two volume life of Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850, Edinburgh judge and literary critic, co-founder of
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Parthenope Nightingale and Ferns
The blog written by Leslie, a fellow volunteer, which drew attention to the links between Elizabeth Gaskell and Florence Nightingale reminded me that it was one of the letters to Parthenope Nightingale that gave the garden planners added reason for planting a
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