Category Archives: 2026

In his Country Life article on Knebworth Garden Village (February 28, 2024), Clive Aslet marvels that apart from Central Square at Hampstead Garden Suburb, Knebworth Garden Village was architect Edwin Lutyens’s only town planning venture before New Delhi in India.  … Continue reading →

Last time Iron Maiden played Knebworth Park, 14 years ago, the lead singer Bruce Dickinson arrived flying his Fokker Dr.1 Triplane (as used by the infamous German flying ace Manfred von Ricthofen, aka The Red Baron) in a recreation aerial … Continue reading →

What a great motto Stevenage has, “The heart of a town lies in its people”.  It is what comes to mind when I consider how blessed we have been with all the stalwart, dedicated, hard-working – and crucially, good-humoured – … Continue reading →

One the great pleasures of the Knebworth House Archive is visiting academics and authors informing us of stories and facts we did not know about the history of Knebworth House and the Lytton family.  A good example of this is … Continue reading →

For most of last month, just as we seemed, as a nation, to move a little further away from the United States, we were actually an hour closer.  American clocks went forward on 8th March and ours not until on … Continue reading →

Although my great-great-great-grandfather, the 19th Century author Edward Bulwer Lytton is not much read nowadays, his influence is still to be found in popular culture.  A great example of this is the spectacular immersive exhibition that has been at the … Continue reading →

If you didn’t catch it, I recommend a web search for the excellent episode of BBC Radio 4’s ‘History’s Toughest Heroes’ on my great-great-aunt the suffragette Constance Lytton.  That broadcast not a surprise, because I’m in it – but what … Continue reading →

Knebworth House is too small.  Not for living in.  No sympathy expected there.  But too small for the extraordinary collection of historical artefacts that have been collected by 19 generations of the Lytton family.  As a living museum, that collection … Continue reading →