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Harewood's Great Time Travelling Christmas. Picture by Bruce Rollinson

Harewood House: A nostalgic vision of Christmases past

Harewood's Great Time Travelling Christmas. The Games Room. Picture by Bruce Rollinson

What Yorkshire's famous stately homes have lined up for Christmas

Dogs at the festival. (Pic credit: DogFest)

Dog festival at Harewood House: DogFest returns to historic estate in Yorkshire

Harewood House from the Terrace. Picture Bruce Rollinson 21 July 2023.

Harewood House deputy CEO explains why £2.5m revamp should keep visitors coming

A competitor set their Dachshund for judging.

Leeds Championship Dog Show 2023: Best photos from Yorkshire’s popular dog show

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Harewood House announces plans for new gardens, playground and visitor centre

Dipti Arora, founder of Thankfully Healthy Tea in Harrogate

Meet the entrepreneur who has launched a 'healthy' tea brand in Yorkshire

Sarah Austin speaks at the National Business Awards Finalist Reception 2021, held at the Tate Modern. Picture by Steve Pope at Fotowales.

Meet the Yorkshire-born entrepreneur who launched an events firm in lockdown

Garden designer Alistair Baldwin at Harewood House. Picture: Date: James Hardisty.

Yorkshire gardener Alistair Baldwin to feature on television showcase

The Bar House on Pool Bank

18th-century tollhouse with one of the best views in Yorkshire for sale

The Yorkshire Arboretum Castle Howard. (Pic credit: James Hardisty)

Two Yorkshire venues to host celebrations for the coronation of King Charles III

To mark 300 years since the birth of renowned eighteenth-century painter and co-founder of the Royal Academy Joshua Reynolds, Harewood House Trust is launching a brand-new exhibition for 2023, exploring his work and role in constructing power and identity through portraiture in the age of Empire. Caitlin Wall pictured in the exhibition. Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme 22nd March 2023

Harewood House's new exhibition of Lascelles ancestors

Mamma Mia! Dynamos out on Scarborough's South Bay.

Stars of hit musical Mamma Mia! looking forward to Open Air Theatre performances

Spring clean at Harewood House, Leeds. Niamh Kelly is pictured cleaning one of the Touchere on display in the Gallery at the House. Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme

Behind the scenes at Harewood House as it reopens for 2023

Harewood House, Leeds. (Pic credit: Simon Hulme)

National Lottery to offer free entry or discount tickets to Yorkshire venues

The portrait of actor and writer David Harewood which has been commissioned to address the lack of diverse representation within Harewood House's historic art collection. (Photo credit: The Harper Edit/PA Wire)

Harewood House commissions portrait of actor in bid to diversify art collection

Harewood House. (Pic credit: Tony Johnson)

Great British Food Festival 2023 Harewood House: When is Leeds food festival?

Flamingos at The Bird Garden at Harewood House

Harewood House confirms closure date for Bird Garden after 53 years

A bird keeper with a pink macaw at the bird garden at Harewood House near Leeds. PIC: Tony Johnson

Closure of bird garden is sad but the correct decision - YP Letters

Kirkstall Abbey. (Pic credit: Tony Johnson)

Oldest and most historic buildings in and around Leeds

This Australian black swan recieves a little delicate dentistry from Brian Hood, one of the assistants at Harewood House Bird Garden, near Leeds, after getting himself tangled almost hook, line and sinker by a fishiing line in 1972

In pictures: Looking back at the history of Harewood House bird garden
Harewood House has announced its much-loved bird garden will close.

Bird keeper Aby Crake with a pink macaw at the bird garden at Harewood House

Harewood House in Yorkshire announces closure of Bird Garden attraction

Long Live the Christmas Tree exhibition at Harewood House Gemma Plumpton is pictured on the piece called Stained Ash by the Galvin Brothers of Happy Memory Picture by Simon Hulme 10th November 2022

Behind the scenes at Harewood House ahead of a Yorkshire Christmas

Long Live the Christmas Tree exhibition at Harewood House. Gemma Plumpton is pictured decorating one of the trees

Castle Howard and Harewood House reveal incredible Christmas displays for 2022

The Little Bird Winter Artisan Market is to be held at Harewood House from November 3

Harewood House opens grounds to the public for just £5 for artisan makers' fair

A new exhibition at Harewood House focuses on the life of Leeds West Indian Carnival founder Dr Arthur France. Photo: Tom Arber

New portrait series aims to diversify collection at Harewood House

Matt Baker with his dog. (Pic credit: Harewood House)

DogFest Harewood House: TV presenter to attend the Yorkshire dog festival

The lake earlier this summer when the ferry ran aground. The water level has since dropped further

Lake at Harewood House in Yorkshire dries up for first time in over 300 years

Campervans line up for inspection

VW Festival 2022: The best photos of classic Volkswagens at Harewood House

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Meet Andrew Baldwin who has opened the school of garden design at Harewood House

Garden designer Alistair Baldwin has a new school specifically to train designers for northern landscapes.

Harewood House becomes home to Yorkshire's first school of garden design

The Body Coach is on tour with PE With Joe for a second year. Photo: Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty

Joe Wicks takes PE With Joe on tour, including to Harewood House, Leeds
Fitness guru Joe Wicks is bringing his PE With Joe tour to Leeds, hoping to help families feel energised mentally and physically this summer. Laura Reid reports.

Bryan Adams at Harewood House. Picture: Scott Antcliffe

Gig review: Bryan Adams at Harewood House, Leeds

The Harewood estate hosts both Michael Buble and Bryan Adams this weekend

Bryan Adams and Michael Buble at Harewood House: Preparations begin for concerts

Downton Abbey’s 10 most popular filming locations to visit in the UK

Sheffield sculptor Francisca Onumah will be exhibiting her sculptural pieces at the Harewood 2022 Biennial.

Meet the Sheffield metalsmith joining the Useful Beautiful Harewood Biennial

Golden Acre Park. (Pic credit: Tony Johnson)

Best places in Leeds to go for a relaxing walk with family and friends

Caitlin Wall helps set up the toys for the Upon a Christmas Wish display at Harewood House near Leeds. (Tony Johnson).

From Castle Howard to Chatsworth House - what some of our big country houses are...

There are several listed buildings on the old Northallerton Prison site

Concern over plans to turn governor's house at Northallerton Prison into gym

The company of Mamma Mia! tour 2016-17. (Picture: Brinkhoff/Moegenburg).

Mamma Mia! comes to Harewood House

Woodgarth, the former home of Dame Fanny Waterman, is back on the market

Dame Fanny Waterman's fabulous former home in Oakwood is back on the market

Chris Day at his new exhibition in the church on the Harewood estate. (Picture: Charlotte Graham)

Harewood House explores black history stories

The Great Yorkshire Proms at Harewood House on September 4

Ad Feature Yorkshire Day: New orchestral work trumpets God's Own County

Sir Willard White performing.

Sir Willard White ahead of Yorkshire gig: 'Music wasn't part of my childhood'

17 amazing photos of pooches on show at Leeds Championship Dog Show.

17 brilliant photos of the Leeds Championship Dog show at Harewood House

Harewood House has been cited in the 'woke' debate.

How ‘wokes’ are shining a light on Harewood House’s slavery links – Yorkshire Po...

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Yorkshire's stately homes facing backlog of vital repairs costing millions

The Luna Cinema is coming to Harewood House this June (photo: The Luna Cinema)

How to get tickets for the Harewood House drive-in cinema this summer

Mamma Mia! on tour in 2019.

Mamma Mia! coming to Harewood House for first ever open-air show

Rose Dawson, 'the bird lady of Yorkshire'.

'Bird lady of Yorkshire' calls Skeldale vet Peter Wright to help sick tawny owl

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Taylor-Bradford on the Yorkshire stately homes that inspired her writing

Fairfax House in York

York’s Georgian gem that’s full of surprises

Moviegoers watch Grease on the big screen in the Titanic Quarter beneath the famous Harland and Wolff cranes in Belfast earlier this summer. (Getty Images).

Are drive-ins the future for cinema in this country? - Tony Earnshaw

Visitor Welcome Supervisor Lizzie Ross makes final preparations in the Painted Hall at Chatsworth House in Bakewell, Derbyshire which reopens to the public on Monday after the lifting of further coronavirus lockdown restrictions in England. PA Photo.

Stately home Chatsworth House gets ready for its grand reopening with new rules

Harewood House is reopening on July 20

Harewood House set to reopen as lockdown restrictions ease

The remarkable Dame Fannny, co-founder of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, at home with one of her Steinways

The legendary Dame Fanny Waterman has put her Leeds home up for sale

A new drive in cinema will launch this summer at Harewood House in Leeds.

New drive in cinema launched this summer at Harewood House in Leeds

David Lascelles, of the Harewood family, issued a statement "recognising the colonial past" of the Grade-II listed house and said although they "cannot change its past", they can "use it as a stark, unequivocal truth to build a fairer, equal future."

Harewood House acknowledges slave trade history and speaks in solidarity with Bl...

Nunnington Hall had several owners before Liverpool merchant William Rutson, the grandson of a slave trader, bought it as a hunting lodge in 1839. It remained in his family until 1952, when his great-niece gave it to the National Trust. Rutson's main estate was Newby Wiske near Northallerton, which is now the headquarters of North Yorkshire Police

The history of the Yorkshire buildings funded by profits from the slave trade

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Plans for reopening of Harewood House attractions