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.

Whilst exploring Harewood’s Old Kitchen, visitors may notice an unusual decoration perched above one of its cooking ranges – a…

This chair, part of a set of 20, was made by Thomas Chippendale for the State Dining Room at Harewood…

Seeds of Hope was an interdisciplinary and innovative response to the centenary of the end of World War I.

In 1893, at the age of just 13, George ‘Bertie’ Robinson, became the first (and only) Black member of staff…

This exhibition told the story of one of the strangest and most extraordinary discoveries at Harewood in recent years -…