An afternoon with Elizabeth Gaskell

Wed 1 September, 2.30–4pm

Actress Delia Corrie takes on the role of Elizabeth Gaskell, author of North and South, which took inspiration from the Preston lock-out and strike of 1853–4. See extracts from Gaskell’s diary and works performed, giving an insight in to her life.

£3, booking essential

New History Exhibition at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery

Think the Industrial Revolution was just about machinery and smog?
Think again…

Industrial Revolutionaries is a major new exhibition at the Harris spanning 150 years of Preston’s history, looking at the personalities that helped create the modern world.

Delving in to the lives of key individuals, and the movements they created, the exhibition reveals their influence, political history and global impact through over 70 objects, including portraits, major loans and key items from the Harris collection.