16th September 2025
“My aim is to bring new voices into the narrative” As I outlined in my previous blog, I am undertaking a DPhil, another...
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Lucianna Cartwright and Yidan Xu completed a micro-internship with the Oxford University Heritage Network and the London Charterhouse in Michaelmas term 2024. They were tasked with researching design and...
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“Along the way I have made friends, laughed, learned and been inspired. Thank you.” We were delighted to have had the opportunity to deliver a new series of masterclasses, Neighbouring Histories, in Autumn/Winter...
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This will be my fourth Christmas as a Charterhouse Brother and it began in July with the question, ‘Do we want another amateur entertainment for the Christmas party?’ The Ayes had it. Attendance at...
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‘Rude and irregular’ is how a 1761 surveyor described the Charterhouse’s buildings, when the site had already been an almshouse providing accommodation for pensioners, known as Brothers, for over...
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Communal dining is essential for the residents of the Charterhouse, an almshouse established in the early 17th century still existing to this day, and has been ever since its foundation. We were lucky...
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From the days of the medieval monastery until 2017, when women were first admitted, the Charterhouse was a predominantly male community. Many of the Brothers who found a haven in the almshouse from the...
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In Autumn of 2023, we invited our almshouse residents, or Brothers as they are known here, and staff to join members of Islington based charity The Stuart Low Trust for a series of 10 drawing masterclasses...
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We are sad to announce that Graham Matthews died on the 18th February 2024. Graham was a Brother of the Charterhouse for nearly 20 years, after joining on us on 1st September 2004. He made an enormous...
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I am an Ambassador for Time for Kindness, an initiative which aims to amplify the kindness which exists in the world. As an Ambassador, I have committed to seeing an act of kindness every day, sharing...
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We are very sad to announce the death of Richard Franklin on Christmas Eve 2023. Richard was an actor, director, writer and political activist, possibly best known for his roles as Captain Yates in Doctor...
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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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I first met John Cooper, also known to me and many others as Henry, who died on 23 December 2021, on Ordination Retreat in Ealing, West London, in late June 1974 before we were to be made Deacons in St...
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