Virtual Garden Festival
Catching Up Thank you so much to everyone who joined in with this wonderful weekend of talks and discussions. We hope we've brought a little bit of the Hampshire countryside direct to your homes. The videos [...]
Virtual Garden Festival – Saturday
Saturday Schedule Time (BST) Speaker Event 11:00 Claire Thurlow Claire Thurlow is a writer and writing coach who is passionate about helping people who have an urge to write. She has an MA in Creative Writing from [...]
Virtual Garden Festival – Sunday
Sunday Schedule Time (BST) Speaker Event 11:00 Clio O'Sullivan Clio O’Sullivan is the Communications and Public Engagement Manager at Chawton House. Alongside her work at Chawton, she studies part-time at the University of Southampton, undertaking a PhD [...]
Access to Chawton House Parkland in Covid-19 crisis: a statement
The House, Gardens and Old Kitchen Tea Room at Chawton House remain closed to visitors because of the Covid-19 crisis, and they will remain so until the Government allows us to re-open. You can enjoy our online programme here on our website and on social media [...]
Lockdown Literary Festival – Sunday
Sunday Schedule Time (BST) Speaker Event 10:00 Claire Thurlow Claire Thurlow is a writer and writing coach who is passionate about helping people who have an urge to write. She has an MA in Creative Writing from [...]
Lockdown Literary Festival – Saturday
Saturday Schedule Time (BST) Speaker Event 10:00 Claire Thurlow Claire Thurlow is a writer and writing coach who is passionate about helping people who have an urge to write. She has an MA in Creative Writing from [...]
Lockdown Literary Festival – Friday
Friday Schedule Time (BST) Speaker Event 10:00 Claire Thurlow Claire Thurlow is a writer and writing coach who is passionate about helping people who have an urge to write. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the [...]
Lockdown Literary Festival
Programme Catching Up Thank you so much to everyone who joined in with this wonderful weekend of talks and discussions. The videos will remain online for the time being (some indefinitely) so please do [...]
Chawton House Poetry Challenge Week 4
Chawton House Poetry Challenge Week 4 My first doth affliction denote Which my second is destin'd to feel. And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal. Quoted in Jane Austen, Emma (1815) It’s Week [...]
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of VE day
This week we celebrate the anniversary of VE day, and this blog relives some wartime memories from Chawton House. Peter Knight At the outbreak of the war, Edward Knight III owned the house. He was posted to [...]