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: The Home Life of Elizabeth Gaskell

Join us for the last of four sessions that explores the home life of Elizabeth Gaskell, covering her house, her beloved garden, the Gaskell Family and the servants who kept the house running. Tickets £8 and each session will run from 1-3pm on Thursdays (28 Sept - 19 Oct) and includes entrance to the house and tea room. 4. The Servants (19/10/2017) Discover the daily routines of Victorian servants, and find out who the Gaskells’ servants were.  Focus

: The Home Life of Elizabeth Gaskell

Join us for all or one of four sessions that explores the home life of Elizabeth Gaskell, covering her house, her beloved garden, the Gaskell Family and the servants who kept the house running. Tickets £8 and each session will run from 1-3pm on Thursdays (28 Sept - 19 Oct) and includes entrance to the house and tea room. 3. The Gaskell Family (12/10/2017) Consider the roles of Elizabeth and William as wife and husband, mother and father. 

: The Home Life of Elizabeth Gaskell – The garden

Join us for all or one of four sessions that explores the home life of Elizabeth Gaskell, covering her house, her beloved garden, the Gaskell Family and the servants who kept the house running. Tickets £8 and each session will run from 1-3pm on Thursdays (28 Sept - 19 Oct) and includes entrance to the house and tea room. 2. The Garden (5/10/2017) Learn how the Gaskells developed their garden, and how it relates to domestic horticulture in

: The Home Life of Elizabeth Gaskell – four week course

Join us for a four week course that explores the home life of Elizabeth Gaskell, covering her house, her beloved garden, the Gaskell Family and the servants who kept the house running. Tickets £8 and each session will run from 1-3pm on Thursdays and includes entrance to the house and tea room. 1. The House (28/9/2017) Check out the financial basis of life at 84 Plymouth Grove.  Appreciate Victorian taste in interior decoration, and Elizabeth’s own taste.  Find

: Lecture : This ’Merikay War’

Join us for an informal lecture given by Dr Simon Rennie from the University of Exeter followed by Q&A. This Merikay War: Lancastrian poetic commentary on the American Civil War during the Cotton Famine When the American Civil War led to a Union blockade of all cotton being exported from the Confederate Southern states, the economic and social effects on the other side of the Atlantic were profound. 80% of the cotton imported into Lancashire came from these