27th October 2015
In a previous blog post we discovered a little of how the Brothers lived in the early 20th century. This blog, an article by H.V. Morton, gives us an even greater picture of how they lived during this period. Morton was a journalist and pioneering travel writer from Lancashire, England. He was best known... continue
22nd September 2015
In the following video, Brother Brooke Kingsmill-Lunn delves into the work of his father, Hugh Kingsmill (1889-1949). A talker of tremendous verve, Hugh Kingsmill wrote over thirty books in his career, including works of science fiction and parody, and in-depth biographies on such notable figures as... continue
16th June 2015
Charles William Dalmon (1862-1938) was a British poet who, in retirement, became a Brother of the Charterhouse. He published many poems during his lifetime, many of them about Sussex, the county in which he was born and for many years lived. Siegfried Sassoon and Ralph Hodgson both considered Dalmon a... continue
27th May 2015
Thackeray spent his formative years at the Charterhouse, which he parodied in his later fiction as “Slaughterhouse”. William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was one of the great English novelists of the 19th century. He is best known for his satirical works, particularly... continue
