Celebrating our collections dating from 780AD to the present day
By Alice Millard, Archivist This blog will explore the lives of some of the girls and women of St Margaret’s Convent through their archive. The Sisters of St Margaret were originally founded to nurse the poor and sick. They also ran an orphanage and a school called St Agnes’ and St Michael’s, to which fee-paying…
Continue reading ➞ Lives Beyond the Convent Walls: Stories from St Margaret’s
By Victoria Evans, Searchroom Archivist On a recent walk down the Chichester Canal heading towards Hunston, I was told about the Carmelite Convent that housed a closed-order nun community between 1872 until 1994 which I had not heard of, even after living in Chichester for three years now! This sparked inspiration to see what we…