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.
More than a flash in the pan – stories from Household Commotion
From the writers at the creative writing workshops currently running at the House. Inspired by the Household Commotion exhibition on servants who worked for the Gaskell family. Read and enjoy! VICTORIAN GOTHIC For the last time, in the house where I've been
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The Sound of Servants – it’s getting louder!
In December 2018, we were successful in securing funding from the Arts Council England for a new collaborative programme of arts activities at the House inspired by the exhibition 'Household Commotion: Elizabeth Gaskell and the awful treasure of her servants 1832-1865' which is on
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – A new book for our collection
We have recently added a splendid edition of Anne Bronte’s controversial novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to our collection. The book has been donated, following a crowdfunding appeal, by Bonnets at Dawn, a social media/podcasting duo who regularly discuss the works
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Liz Ackerley, Ruskin, and Sketching Elizabeth Gaskell’s House
To celebrate John Ruskin’s 200th birthday, on the 8th of Febuary we had the pleasure of hosting another workshop with the incredibly talented Liz Ackerley. Liz is an urban sketcher with a background in science and landscape design, which has influenced her
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Spring Cleaning with our Volunteer Housekeeping Team
On Monday, a few volunteers gathered in the servant’s hall at Elizabeth Gaskell’s house for one of our regular sessions of conservation cleaning. Most of the objects, books and furniture in the house are more than a hundred years old (and some
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