A visit to the archive at the Manchester Lit & Phil
As a member of The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, I had been asked to write a piece on our illustrious past member Ernest Rutherford. So there I was at Church House going through the Society’s files when my magpie brain suddenly
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John Ruskin’s Cravat
Aconite There is a deep blue aconite coming to the end of its flowering in the garden at present. It is almost the same shade of blue as the cravat worn by John Ruskin in the portrait painted of him in 1879
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Samuel Gaskell – Warrington’s Forgotten Pioneer of the Treatment of Mental Health.
On Saturday 14th September from 10am to 4pm and on Sunday 15th September from 12noon to 2pm, Cairo Street Chapel in Warrington will be open for Heritage Weekend. Visitors can spend time visiting Warrington’s oldest Dissenting Chapel, founded on the same site
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At home with the Harpers
While Elizabeth Gaskell is one of the most well known of the people who've lived at 84 Plymouth Grove, the house has been a home to other families, all of whom have stories to share with us. One of these is the
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Exploring John Ruskin’s Brantwood
Ruskin was one of the most remarkable men, not only of England and our time, but of all countries and all times. He was one of those rare men who think with their hearts, and so he thought and said not only
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