CMP Review 2025-09-02

September 2, 2025

“It was during the years 1918 to 1919 that I, who write this story, took the training at Ambleside.” That is how Essex Cholmondeley, Charlotte Mason’s biographer, opens chapter 8 of her book. And what did Miss Cholmondeley remember most from her time as a student at the House of Education?

Cholmondeley herself answers the question: “Perhaps the most life-giving ideas that the students received were the three which form ‘The Threefold Cord,’ a short leaflet given to each student on leaving college.” But what did this leaflet say?

Years ago Nancy Kelly was exploring the archives at the Armitt Museum in Ambleside when she happened upon a small leaflet tucked away. She saw the title and knew it was something important.

Nancy put two and two together, and I’m sure you can too. Follow this link to read or hear “Our Three-fold Cord,” read and introduced by Nancy Kelly.

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