Our Executive Director, Gillian Dow was at Winchester Cathedral today for the official unveiling of the new £10, featuring Jane Austen’s image. Read the speech she gave, commemorating Jane Austen’s enduring legacy. History, real solemn history, I cannot be [...]
The Unguide Project - Ryan Adams (Chawton House Library Internship 2017) During my tenure as an intern at Chawton House Library, I was requested to take part in the assistance of a project alongside a PhD candidate, Matthew Tyler-Jones, [...]
Emma Brodey, our library intern for March and April of 2017, reflects on her time at Chawton House Library: A day at Chawton House Library in spring starts with a subtle sunrise-- one that we might not notice in [...]
At the beginning of June, Chawton House Library hosted a conference by the Independent Libraries Association. It was the 28th annual meeting but only the second time it had been ran as a conference with speakers from around the UK [...]
The Knight Family Cookbook is a recipe book dating from around 1793, used by Jane Austen's family, and re-printed by Chawton House Library in 2014. Given its history, the recipes within have had long lives, inspiring many meals over the [...]
Jennifer Louise Mueller Digital Godmersham For a research assistant like myself, used to the frenetic buzz of London, Chawton House Library is an ideal countryside retreat. After nearly seven weeks I am still captivated by the beauty of the [...]
Kate Shaw was the September intern at Chawton House Library and here she discusses her time working on one of our manuscripts. 'During my internship at Chawton House Library I have been involved with many different activities, but one [...]
An afternoon of talks on representing and experiencing the garden in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. This event is organized by the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies in conjunction with the Sydney Intellectual History Network. It is free to attend, but [...]
Today is National Poetry Day. We remember Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806), poet and novelist: 'the first poet in England whom in retrospect we would call Romantic' as the editor of her verse, Stuart Curran, writes. Next week, scholars of [...]
This month we have a display of work by Corinne Young and Serena Partridge: 'Portrait of a Lady' - a showcase inspired by ladies in history. Corinne is a textile artist from East Yorkshire who creates embroidered 3D artwork [...]