We're proud to unveil a new portrait by contemporary visual artist Lela Harris for Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter exhibition. Lela Harris has created a compelling new portrait of Miss Lambe, the only character of African heritage in Austen’s novels, from her unfinished manuscript Sanditon.

Harewood House Trust welcomes the creation of the Heirs of Slavery group, which includes David Lascelles, the Earl of Harewood, and other people whose ancestors profited from transatlantic slavery.

In 1906, the Lascelles family set sail in their yacht, the Dolores, for a several month-long holiday to the Caribbean.

This photograph was taken during the first of my many visits to Harewood House.

Harewood is near Leeds, a thriving, energetic and multicultural city. Given Harewood's history, we want to raise the voices of…

In this article, Olivia Wyatt discusses the importance of surviving plantation inventories and how they can be used to recover the identities of enslaved African Caribbeans.

Regarded as one of England’s ‘Treasure Houses’, Harewood House’s history, like most prominent British institutions, is closely linked to slavery and colonialism. Here, you’ll learn more about this intricate history.

In this blog, Olivia Wyatt, researcher, historian and former Harewood volunteer challenges the ‘facts’ of the archive.

On the evening of the 14 April 1816 – 208 years ago to this day – fires were lit in…

Nobody who attended the performances of Geraldine Connor’s epic masterpiece Carnival Messiah at Harewood House will ever forget it.