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SUMMARY:The Victorian House: Elizabeth Gaskell's House in Context
DESCRIPTION:Is Elizabeth Gaskell’s House a ‘typical’ Victorian house?  Surely houses changed a lot over Victoria’s 63-year-long reign?\nAnthony Burton examines various aspects of Victorian domestic architecture\, in order to show how Elizabeth Gaskell’s House fits in.\n\nDoors open at 1pm and the talk begins at 1.30pm. \nWe’ll make a recording available for online viewing after the event. \nAll are welcome – both members and non-members. Member tickets are £5\, non-members £6.
URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/manchester-meeting-february-2024/
LOCATION:Cross Street Chapel\, Cross Street\,\, Manchester\, M2 1NL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,Manchester,Meeting,talk
ORGANIZER;CN="The Gaskell Society":MAILTO:gaskellsociety@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231213T190000
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DTSTAMP:20260420T102335
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SUMMARY:Online Talk: Victorian Christmas in Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester
DESCRIPTION:At the start of Queen Victoria’s reign\, Christmas meant little to commercial Manchester but during the 1840s-1860s the city came to share in an upsurge of enthusiasm for the festive season. Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester saw a boom in the Christmas trade in food\, wine and gifts\, the expansion of seasonal entertainments like pantomime and the revival of old customs. Even the Mechanics Institution sponsored a series of pageants involving wassail bowls and boars’ heads. And if Christmas was a time to remember the poor\, that certainly hit home in the city. \nSo get your mince pies ready\, pull up your favourite chair\, and join us online for a cosy Christmassy evening with the Gaskell Society’s Anthony Burton. \nThe talk will be approx 45 mins long\, with time for a short question session afterwards.
URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/victorian-christmas/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Christmas,history,Online,talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Elizabeth Gaskell's House":MAILTO:enquiries@elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231129T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231129T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T102335
CREATED:20230526T105210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230526T105628Z
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SUMMARY:Online Event: North and South – The Preston Lockouts Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:2023 marks the 170th anniversary of the Preston Lockouts – the historical strikes that informed the plot and themes of Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic romantic novel North and South and provided inspiration for Charles Dickens in Hard Times. When workers demanded a 10% wage increase in Preston in 1853\, the factory owners simply locked the gates and left 18\,000 people out of work. So\, what really happened during the lock outs? Are characters like Mr Thornton and Higgins based on real people? And what was the impact of these events\, both for the strikers themselves and for wider Victorian industrial relations? Popular speaker Prof Michael Sanders from Manchester University explores the reality behind the strikes which inspired these groundbreaking ‘condition of England’ novels. \nThe talk will be approx 45 mins long\, with time for a short question session afterwards
URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/preston-lockouts-anniversary/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:history,Online,talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Elizabeth Gaskell's House":MAILTO:enquiries@elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231004T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231004T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T102335
CREATED:20230526T100224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230526T100250Z
UID:4567-1696446000-1696449600@gaskellsociety.co.uk
SUMMARY:Online Talk: Song of the Shirt
DESCRIPTION:With fingers weary and worn\, \nWith eyelids heavy and red\, \nA woman sat in unwomanly rags\, \nPlying her needle and thread— \nStitch! stitch! stitch! \nThomas Hood wrote the famous poem The Song of the Shirt (1843)\, in response to a newspaper report about a widow and seamstress named Mrs Biddell who was forced\, like many seamstresses of her day\, to work for a pittance on which she could barely survive. So how can the poem help us better understand Elizabeth Gaskell’s popular novel Mary Barton? Victorian public opinion was both shocked and titillated by reports that seamstresses might be forced into prostitution by poverty. How were these concerns reflected in contemporary literature? Dr Ingrid Hanson looks at the figure of the seamstress\, the reality of destitution and Victorian sexual politics in this insightful talk.
URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/song-of-the-shirt/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:history,Mary Barton,talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Elizabeth Gaskell's House":MAILTO:enquiries@elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230927T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230927T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T102335
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SUMMARY:Online Talk: Mary Barton and the Year of Revolutions
DESCRIPTION:Mary Barton and the Year of Revolutions: ‘John Barton became a Chartist\, a Communist’\nElizabeth Gaskell’s debut novel Mary Barton (1848) is recognised as one of the most important Victorian works to explore the working class Chartist movement\, in this case through the character of Mary’s father\, John Barton. Popular speaker Prof Mike Sanders is back to reveal the historical truth behind the story\, published just three years after Engels’ Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) and amidst rumours of revolution. Perfect for anyone who wants to explore the context of this classic novel including the reality of Manchester and the ‘hungry forties’. \nPart of Mary Barton season
URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/mary-barton-revolutions/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:history,Mary Barton,talk
ORGANIZER;CN="Elizabeth Gaskell's House":MAILTO:enquiries@elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230614T190000
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SUMMARY:Online Talk: The Gaskells' Garden on a Plate
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Gaskell had great hopes for the garden at Plymouth Grove\, not just as a beautiful place to relax\, but as a source of food for the family. She even joked that ‘I find my proper vocation is farming‘. \nNow you can find out about what she grew\, where and why based on original sources including letters\, maps\, photographs and references to her fiction. Join the Gaskell Society’s Jackie Tucker to explore some of the symbolism in novels such as Cranford and North And South and discover which fruit and vegetables were grown in the Victorian garden of one of our greatest novelists. \nThe talk will be approx 45 mins long\, with time for a short question session afterwards.
URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/online-talk-the-gaskells-garden/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:history,literature,talk,women
ORGANIZER;CN="Elizabeth Gaskell's House":MAILTO:enquiries@elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230608T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230608T193000
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SUMMARY:Of Song and Speech: Music and Words from Industrial Lancashire
DESCRIPTION:Gaskell Society member and good friend\, Professor Michael Sanders\,  in conversation exploring the defining literary and cultural pioneers of the era. He’ll be joined by folk singer\, Jen Reid\, who sings Lancashire dialect songs.\n\n\n5:30-6:10: Collections Encounter \nDrop in at the Rylands and discover objects and books connected to our exhibition Workers’ Playtime: Culture and Community in Industrial Lancashire. Meet our staff and learn more about the rich intellectual lives of industrial workers in 19th-century Lancashire. \n  \n6:15-6:35: Songs from Industrial Lancashire with Jennifer Reid \nDiscover 19th-century Lancashire ballads with a special performance by Jennifer Reid. Jennifer Reid is a performer of nineteenth century Lancashire dialect and Victorian broadside ballads. The working classes made music as a provocation and this is a tradition Jennifer continues. \n  \n6:35-7:15: In Conversation: Jennifer Reid and Michael Sanders \nJoin us after Jennifer Reid’s performance for a chance to delve deeper into the world of working-class songs and literature from 19th-century Lancashire. Michael Sanders is Professor of 19th-century Writing at the University of Manchester and Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded Piston\, Pen & Press project exploring the ways in which the industrial working class accessed and participated in literary culture in Scotland and the North of England in the ‘long Nineteenth Century’. \nA free ticket can be booked via Eventbrite. \n\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/of-song-and-speech-music-and-words-from-industrial-lancashire-tickets-631591766977
URL:https://gaskellsociety.co.uk/event/of-song-and-speech/
LOCATION:The John Rylands Research Institute and Library\, 150 Deansgate\, Manchester\, M3 3EH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Concert,Discussion,history
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Manchester John Rylands Library":MAILTO:jrl.visitors@manchester.ac.uk
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