Category Archives: 2018

Representatives from authors’ and musicians’ homes and museums from around the United Kingdom visited Knebworth House in November for the 15th annual LitHouses Conference.  Sir Walter Scott and James Boswell were represented from Scotland, Dylan Thomas from Wales, John Ruskin … Continue reading →

The Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust (KHEPT) has never in the past succeeded in getting a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.  Not for want of trying.  The charity has put together expensive applications three times since the 1990s … Continue reading →

“Famous word that, innit, ‘Knebworth’?… You know, Led Zeppelin, ‘n’ all that…” “Oasis…” “Everyone… ‘Knebworth’!” “Happy Mondays” “Happy Mondays!” Shaun Ryder and Bez of the Happy Mondays – Knebworth Park 01.09.18 It was a happy Monday after the weekend of … Continue reading →

There was excitement in our Archives recently when a newspaper cutting from July 1910 surfaced revealing that “Mrs. (Emmeline) Pankhurst addressed a woman suffrage meeting in the grounds of Knebworth House. Lord Lytton and Lady Constance Lytton also spoke.”  We … Continue reading →

I can’t possibly be old enough to listen to Radio 4.  But then my children tell me they listen to podcasts – which are basically Radio 4.  So clearly I am out of step.  Podcasts are a good way of … Continue reading →

Dogs of Knebworth House When we brought our two dogs, Zac and Willow (top row, 2nd & 3rd from the right), to live at Knebworth House from the Great Dane Rescue Centre in Lincolnshire they were both 3 years old … Continue reading →

On Thursday 28th June we are visited by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, a theatre group modelled on and named after Shakespeare’s original troupe of travelling players.  They will be performing ‘The Tempest’ on the garden lawn in front of Knebworth … Continue reading →

It’s a good month to talk about the Lytton Arms.  The actual Lytton Arms.  The pub, when it reopens this month – if it continues to use the image of the Arms – will probably use a simplified version.  The … Continue reading →

“I, Mary Ann Stratton of the Lytton Arms Inn, situate at Knebworth, in the parish of Knebworth, in the County of Hertford, Innkeeper, do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that it is my intention to apply… for the REMOVAL of a LICENSE … Continue reading →

“In years to come this story of compassion and chivalry will be told in the schools to children yet unborn… And many a woman child will say in her heart: ‘I, too, will be fearless and chivalrous and brave’” Words … Continue reading →