Join Tracey Todhunter, freelance knitwear designer and author of Woman’s Weekly Guide to Crochet, for an afternoon of craft and chat in our 1940s café.

Join Tracey Todhunter, freelance knitwear designer and author of Woman’s Weekly Guide to Crochet, for an afternoon of craft and chat in our 1940s café.

Join us for a romantic night with a difference! Comedians from up and down the country will become professors and comment on the museum’s collections, filling you in on what they actually are.

Join us for an afternoon of making, doing and mending, inspired by the creative resourcefulness of people during wartime.

Puddington is Chester’s furthest outpost. Writer and broadcaster Gee Williams, co-author of A Loop in Time, explores the 5,000 year survival of this strange and secretive place.

Join Tracey Todhunter, freelance knitwear designer and author of Woman’s Weekly Guide to Crochet, for an afternoon of craft and chat in our 1940s café.

Making masks of a dead person’s face used to be a popular way to remember them. Join the staff of Co-op Funeralcare to make and take home your own ‘Life Mask’, modelled on your own face.

Join Tracey Todhunter, freelance knitwear designer and author of Woman’s Weekly Guide to Crochet, for an afternoon of craft and chat in our 1940s café.

Stephen Clarke, Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at the University of Chester and guest curator of the David Ferry exhibition, gives an overview of David’s career and work, from Blackpool to London to President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.

From Hadrian’s Wall to Offa’s Dyke, from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall, this conference explores the public archaeology of frontiers and borderlands.

The Victorians celebrated death as a part of human experience. Join Mike Higginbottom to discover the great Victorian cemeteries.

Join Tracey Todhunter, freelance knitwear designer and author of Woman’s Weekly Guide to Crochet, for an afternoon of craft and chat in our 1940s café.

The Pool of Life, as Jung called it, has sprung back to life after a period of trials and tribulations, to look like the world-class city that it has always been.

Horrible Handwriting! Decipher a 17th-century remedy for the plague.

Ashes into Glass is the leading creator of ashes jewellery in the United Kingdom and worldwide. They produce fine jewellery for you to connect with your loved one by wearing it or just holding it in your hand.

Join Tracey Todhunter, freelance knitwear designer and author of Woman’s Weekly Guide to Crochet, for an afternoon of craft and chat in our 1940s café.

The Hospice of the Good Shepherd, which provides palliative and end of life care to people living with a progressive life limiting illness, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

The modern perception of ancient Egypt is that its inhabitants were morbidly obsessed with death.

Join Tracey Todhunter, freelance knitwear designer and author of Woman’s Weekly Guide to Crochet, for an afternoon of craft and chat in our 1940s café.

Join Tracey Todhunter, freelance knitwear designer and author of Woman’s Weekly Guide to Crochet, for an afternoon of craft and chat in our 1940s café.

In the first of three lectures examining the English civil war of 1642-46 in this region, Professor Peter Gaunt explores Chester as a royalist stronghold and parliamentarian objective.

Join Tracey Todhunter, freelance knitwear designer and author of Woman’s Weekly Guide to Crochet, for an afternoon of craft and chat in our 1940s café.

In the second of three lectures examining the English civil war of 1642-46 in this region, Professor Peter Gaunt explores the civil war within Cheshire.

A chance to enjoy a nostalgic look at Britain during the 1950s in the comfort of our Lecture Theatre. Film show, plus handling session with artefacts from the decade and 1950s-themed refreshements.

In the third of three lectures examining the English civil war of 1642-46 in this region, Professor Peter Gaunt looks west, across the border, to reassess the standing and nature of royalism in northern and mid Wales.

Join Tracey Todhunter, freelance knitwear designer and author of Woman’s Weekly Guide to Crochet, for an afternoon of craft and chat in our 1940s café.