Discover more about this year's festive theme at Chawton House, open to visit from 1 December to 2 January. Every year we decorate Chawton House for Christmas, bringing festive cheer to every room of the House for you to enjoy [...]
Chawton House reopens for the festive season celebrating Christmas traditions of days gone by. Chawton House is reopening its doors for the festive season on Wednesday 1 December. Celebrating Chawton House’s Christmas traditions, visitors will see the House beautifully dressed with traditional decorations created by Chawton [...]
VisitEngland has announced that Chawton House has won a 'Hidden Gem' award as part of their 2020-2021 Visitor Attraction Accolades for the third year in a row. Of the awards, VisitEngland Director Andrew Stokes says: "I'm so pleased to see [...]
This Summer, we were delighted with the response to our international creative writing competition, which attracted many talented young writers from the UK and much further afield, but which is also influencing teachers too. These pictures were sent in by [...]
Open for October half-term, meet the makers behind our spooktacular Gothic Garden trail... We've always known we had an exceptionally talented team amongst the younger members of the Chawton House staff and the creativity and imagination demonstrated in our Halloween [...]
Over the Summer, we launched a creative writing competition for young people, based on our 2020-21 exhibition, Man Up! Participants were tasked with creating a poem or short story inspired by women who stepped into male roles. Thank you to [...]
When the cold blood shoots through every vein; When every pore upon my shrunken skin A knotted knoll becomes, and to mine ears Strange inward sounds awake, and to mine eyes Rush stranger tears, there is a joy in [...]
Chawton House is taking part in East Hampshire's first ever literary festival! Between 2 and 10 October the area’s first nature and literary festival will celebrate local literary greats and their love of the East Hampshire countryside. Follow in [...]
This August, we welcome Dr Kim Simpson into a new role as Deputy Director. Kim has been the Postdoctoral Fellow at Chawton House since 2016, a post shared between the library and the English Department at the University of Southampton, [...]
. On this day in 1817, Jane Austen died. To commemorate her life, we are sharing the title article from our latest issue of The Female Spectator, written by Curator and Collections Manager Emma Yandle, about one of our [...]