Our Summer Fellows are hard at work in the Reading Rooms. One of this week's discoveries was a book with the pages still uncut: Gisborne's 1797 Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society. Find out more about their projects: chawtonhouse.org/2024/06/2024-v…

It's #NationalBookLoversDay today! The perfect day to pick up a book and get reading!! Looking for a new book? Come along to our Book Fair at our Bank Holiday Summer Fair on Sunday 25th August! chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/bank-…

Announcing the artists who will be hosting stalls in Dyer's Barn during our Bank Holiday Summer Fair! We have Richard Stapley from LaymarCrafts Woodturning, local artist Michael Williams, local candle maker Crystal Cawley and Emily Barnett. chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/bank-….

Come along for some nature-based children’s crafting activites in The Walled Garden on Tuesday 20th August. Make some Spring Mobiles and do some Leaf Printing using recylced materials from the House! chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/natur…

🤩Can't wait for this exhibition at ChawtonHouse, featuring the last surviving portrait of the 18th century trailblazing writer Mary Robinson on loan from National Portrait Gallery. We're so pleased to support the exhibition with Garfield Weston Foundation through the Weston Loan Programme 🖼️

Part 1 of Emily Barnett's intermediate embroidery workshop is underway today. Attendees will learn traditional needlework skills to create their own beautiful botanical motif. #ChawtoninStiches #Embroidery #Needlework

We had a lovely morning making some children's crafts today! We're back again next Tuesday making bug hotels and painting pet rocks, so why don't you bring the kids and come along!

Today we bid farewell to our Fellows, after a brilliant presentation of their research: the worst conduct book advice, the 'messiness' of our Grandison manuscript, & the critical approaches of women writers to earlier male-authored works Maddy Mikinski Claudia JM Cornelissen Katie MacLean

It's the last weekend that Chawton in Stitches is open so make sure you don't miss the chance to see the extraordinary work from award-winning embroiderer Emily Barnett! On Bank Holiday Sunday House Admission will be included in a Garden Ticket so it's the perfect chance to visit

Join Curator Emma Yandle for the premier tour of our brand new exhibition, Mary Robinson: Actress. Mistress. Writer. Radical on Saturday 14th September! You can purchase tickets here chawton-house.arttickets.org.uk/chawton-house/…

#BTS of our new exhibition opening Monday 2nd September Mary Robinson: Actress. Mistress. Writer. Radical

Unfortunately due to staff illness we will be closing the Kitchen tomorrow (Friday 30th August) and therefore we will only be serving Hot and Cold Drinks and Cakes. We apologise for any inconveniences caused.

Due to private hire events on Friday 5th September and Saturday 6th September we will be altering opening times on these dates. For more information please visit our website at chawtonhouse.org

Chawton House’s digital living room reopens for the Autumn/Winter season with the first of a series of digital events exploring the life and work of Mary Robinson. This will take place online at 9-10.30pm BST on Friday 27th September. For more information: chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/mary-…