Book Labelling
As part of Elizabeth Gaskell's House’s work towards Museum Accreditation, a team of volunteers got together one Monday to allocate unique identifying numbers to the books in William Gaskell's study, with the aim of doing the whole collection eventually. Supervised by Jane,
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Music Conquers All
It was a hugely entertaining afternoon at St Ann's Church on Saturday afternoon when Herizons, a creative group of women based at Elizabeth Gaskell House with enJOY Arts, performed a musical drama telling the story of the Northern School of Music, 1920-1972.
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It’s 1853 in our time line series!
It's a hugely busy year for Elizabeth Gaskell! On January 10, Ruth - perhaps Gaskell's most controversial novel - is published. Frankly confronting Victorian attitudes to seduction and illegitimacy, it was never going to have an easy reception - it was a
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Visiting the Manchester Jewish Museum
Like Elizabeth Gaskell's House, the Manchester Jewish Museum is one of Manchester's smaller, and perhaps less well-known, heritage gems which work collaboratively as the Hidden 8 - though with the recent addition of Manchester Histories, the 8 has become 9! I'm rather
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Sarah Losh and the church at Wreay
On a week’s holiday in Northern Cumbria recently, I was able to visit the little village of Wreay (pronounced to rhyme with near) just south of Carlisle and within earshot of the M6. Sitting at the heart of a tiny village is
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