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Read of the Week: Reader, I Married Him by Tracy Chevalier
Recommended by Emma from our PIPEs team, this week's Read is a collection of short stories edited by Tracy Chevalier…
CALDER STORY: Love’s Labour’s Lost in Calderstones Park
Stories are at the heart of our project to create The International Centre for Shared Reading at Calderstones Mansion…
Featured Poem: Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Our Featured Poem today comes from Gerard Manley Hopkins. Spring and Fall deals with the heavy themes of youth, mortality…
Project Update – June 2018
This is the first in a series of posts giving a sneak peek into what's happening inside Calderstones Mansion House…
Reader Story: Deborah’s Internship with The Reader
A letter from Deborah, our recently departed Reading Resources Intern, who has shared her experiences with The Reader. Before we…
Conservation work begins on the Neolithic Calder Stones
Last month we welcomed Orbis Conservation to Calderstones Park to begin their preliminary investigations ahead of the Neolithic stones moving…
Read of the Week: Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Before he departed, our wonderful Monitoring and Evaluation Intern, Gareth shared a favourite for Read of the Week. Here's his…
Volunteer Week: I cannot imagine anything I would rather do on a Monday
Wrapping up our National Volunteers' Week Reader Stories, Melanie shares her experiences on volunteering as Reader Leader: I moved to…
Volunteer Week: The floodgates opened, I became hugely passionate about reading
Matthew recently shared his experiences of volunteering at the Aesop Arts and Health Conference in London. This is his Reader Story: "After…
Read of the Week: Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes
As a parting gift to us, our Reading Resources Intern Deborah shared a recommended read for our revitalised Read of…
Volunteer Week: There’s been a sea change in my life, I can’t go back to where I was before…
Frank first joined a Shared Reading group in Phoenix House two years ago. He went on to be a group…
Read of the Week: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
In a glorious return to our regular Read of the Week feature, our departing Reading Resources intern Deborah has shared…
