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5th May 2015

How the Brothers Lived in the Early 20th Century

The Brothers of today live very different lives from their counterparts of the early 20th century. Over a hundred years ago, conditions at the Charterhouse were austere, and Chapel attendance was compulsory. Brothers were expected to wear long Jocobean capes with deep collars, and at mealtimes, fighting... continue

1st May 2015

The Secret of Chartreuse

The following advertisement was originally published in The illustrated London News on November 10, 1951. It was recently discovered in the Charterhouse Scrap Book, a book of press clippings dating back to 1797, and provides a short illustrated history of Chartreuse, a pale green or yellow liqueur... continue

Thesiger and bin Al Kamam on a Dubai rooftop

10th April 2015

Sir Wilfred Thesiger and the Charterhouse (1998)

According the following article, Wilfred Thesiger (above, left), the great travel writer and explorer, apparently expressed a desire of becoming a Brother of the Charterhouse in the final years of his life. Thesiger is best known for two books: Arabian Sands (1959), which recounts his travels in the... continue

7th April 2015

Dickens and the Poor Brothers of the Charterhouse

In the 1850s Charles Dickens commissioned two attacks against the Charterhouse, and specifically its Master, W.H. Hale. Household Words was an English weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens in the 1850s. It took its name from the line in Shakespeare’s Henry V: “Familiar in his mouth as... continue

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