Our blog post cover everything that happens at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House from the stories discovered about objects and furnishings, to family connections and past residents. You can read about the garden and the plants we grow as well as the volunteering experience we offer to our brilliant team. The majority of the posts are written by volunteers.
2. A Year in the Life of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
Week 2. 7 - 13 October 2024 We are still on a high after the launch of the new Exhibition, and this week it has been lovely getting the feedback from the volunteers seeing it for the first time. But, sadly there's
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Rev. Henry Turner and a visit to Nottingham
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
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1. A Year in the Life of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
Over the next year I am going to try to give a week-by-week update of what's happening at the House during its anniversary year via this blog. Inspired by Elizabeth Gaskell's letters, I hope to write about the trivial and the domestic,
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Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
October 2024 marks 10 years since Elizabeth Gaskell’s House was first opened to the public.The last decade has been one of the most important in the building’s almost 200-year history. The journey to becoming a visitor attraction and museum took several years
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Sustainable Travel
This month, Lizzie, our volunteer champion for environmental sustainability, looks at alternatives to flying. If you have visited Elizabeth Gaskell’s House (or read the blog), you will probably have seen Elizabeth’s passport and heard about her foreign holidays to various European countries.
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