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: May Half-term – Servant School!

  "All our servants do very nicely" Elizabeth Gaskell Join us on Wednesday during half term, and learn to be a House servant! Meet our resident servants, Hearn and Margaret, and be put to work on some light household duties in order to earn your Servant School Certificate! £1 per child, with accompanying adult paying usual annual ticket house admission: £5/£4 concessions.   

: Remembrance Sunday Poetry Reading

Join us in the Dining Room at 12.30pm for a short poetry reading to mark the centenary of the Armistice and to remember and honour those who have sacrificed themselves to secure and protect our freedom. Thank you to Andrea Ellis for doing the poetry reading. Included in admission. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them. Laurence Binyon - 1914

: Easter at Elizabeth Gaskell’s House

Join us for Servant School, Easter crafts and family activities in the beautifully restored home of Manchester’s most famous Victorian author. "There was Easter proper, which always required new clothing of some kind, for fear of certain consequences from little birds, who were supposed to resent the impiety of those who do not wear some new article of dress on Easter-day…So piety demanded a new bonnet, or a new gown" Elizabeth Gaskell, from Wives and Daughters Sunday 7

: Half-term Family Crafts

Join us for family crafts on Wednesday during half-term, from 1-3pm. We'll be making quill pens and using home-made ink to write our own Victorian-style letters, just like the letter in our servants exhibition, written to Elizabeth Gaskell's stable boy, Will Preston, and found tucked away in the eaves of the House during renovations. Come along, make a quill, and be inspired to write a letter of your own!      £1 per child with adult paying house

: PERSPECTIVES | Venture Arts | Meet the Artist’s – Drop in 

A chance to meet the artists featured in Venture Arts PERSPECTIVES exhibition and learn more about the artworks featured, the artists' creative practice and Venture Arts. Included in usual House admission - just turn up. Photo: Ellie Walmsley Artwork: Ceramic heads by Darren Gallagher, Andrew Johnstone, Ahmed Mohammed, and Kathy Wilmot.