Sustainability has become almost a popular term in recent years. It can have many meanings, not just those relating to the environment and it provides an interesting lens through which […]
A talk by Dr Katie McGettigan, Royal Holloway, University of London In July 1860, the American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a transatlantic best-seller, wrote to […]
The Charlotte M Yonge Fellowship Autumn Meeting will take place on Saturday 21st November 2026 at 3.00 pm. The speaker is Moira Redmond, long-standing blogger and writer on clothes, speaking […]
“The peculiar, and in some respects distressing, condition in which we are now placed as a manufacturing people”: George Buckland, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the Reports of the Unitarian Ministry to […]
Based on 10 years of meticulous research, this talk takes a deep dive into the Gaskell/Bronte story unearthing some surprising details about literature's most famous female friendship. Susan Dunne is […]
A talk by Dr Sara Zadrozny, University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education The census of 1851, the year in which “Our Society at Cranford” first appeared in Household Words, […]
« All Events Who was Marie Nordlinger, Marcel Proust’s ‘Muse from Manchester’? Tuesday 2 March, 2027 , 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm GMT £5 – £6 Dr Cynthia Gamble introduces […]
« All Events Gaskell Society Annual General Meeting 2027 24 April , 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Free Our Annual General Meeting takes place at Cross Street Chapel in Manchester10.00 […]