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Canon Ann Clarke in the Charterhouse Chapel
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Women’s History Month: Canon Ann Clarke

My journey to priesthood took thirty-seven-years, but what a journey it has been and continues to be. It started when I was...

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Cover of first and second ever Charterhouse news pamphlet.
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14th February 2023

Uncovering more of the Charterhouse’s past

The current cataloguing with the old back copies of the Old Charterhouse Magazine is moving ahead at a steady pace. Already we have been astounded with the amount of stories from the past lives of the...

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Photos of the old magazine
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18th January 2023

The Charterhouse Magazine, December 1933

Jack Evans, our Collections Volunteer, has had a rather exhaustive stretch of documenting and cataloguing an entire file box worth of photographs of the Charterhouse (as part of an exciting project that...

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Reflections on a placement at the Charterhouse
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1st February 2022

Reflections on a placement at the Charterhouse

My name is Aloysius Nabaasa, a student of Learning Disability Nursing at Southbank University. I had the opportunity to do my placement at the Charterhouse where I spent 6 weeks from the 8th November 2021....

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The Charterhouse tapestries are back
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6th January 2022

The Charterhouse tapestries are back

After nearly two years in lockdown at the conservator’s studio, the five remaining tapestry panels have now returned to the Charterhouse. They sit proudly in their new home, on the walls of the new ‘Tapestry...

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An update on our Community Engagement programme
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14th December 2021

An update on our Community Engagement programme

Our Community Engagement Manager Nichola Charalambou is now focused on nurturing and growing our relationships with local organisations and communities whose members are older people, and those who may...

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The life of Carthusian monks in the Charterhouse
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28th September 2021

The life of Carthusian monks in the Charterhouse

Rosie Chan, a Museum Studies student at the University of Leicester, was recently here on a work placement, and immersed herself in our heritage. Here she looks more closely at the lives of the Carthusian...

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