Friendships celebrated as Dickens Museum brilliantly hosts 27 fellow literary houses from around the country for our 20th Anniversary and Wilkie Collins for its winter exhibit 🖋🏡

Last year we were all reclining on Anne Lister's bed Shibden Hall, this year our conference ended with us all partying in Jimi Hendrix's bedroom Handel Hendrix House... people will talk 🖋🏡

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Welcome Robert Southey @KeswickMuseum to the august company of lithouses.org

If you spotted the auction of Mr Darcy's shirt in the press this week, you may be wondering who bought it.... Find out more: news.calderdale.gov.uk/bringing-a-pie… [image copyright Kerry Taylor Auctions]

Very excellent talk from mary beard on interpreting heritage - required listening for LitHouses & open Historic Houses (Sat eve Times Radio) - underpinned by the evolutionary value of disagreement & debate... so a little worried that I agreed with 100% of it

Date for your diary - the 21st Annual LitHouses Conference is scheduled for Friday 22nd November at spectacular Newstead Abbey, which this year marks the bicentenary of Byron's death 🖋🏡

LitHouses sends its regards to Newstead Abbey today - the 200th Anniversary of Byron's death - with an image of Byron's ruler, in the collection of Edward Bulwer Lytton at Knebworth House 🖋🏡

Words cannot express how much I love this tweet, all hail niche lit houses collections and connections 🥹

No progress has been so satisfying to witness as that of Elizabeth Gaskell's House - Join us on Insta & FB over the last 20 years. The hard work of some very fine and committed folk has transformed a phantom of decay into a paragon of display 🙌

The LitHouses conference is about getting together and sharing updates, but fun each year to have a theme - and at our 21st annual gathering on Friday 22nd November 2024 at beautiful Newstead Abbey it will be 'International Initiatives'. Save the date. Details coming soon 🖋🏡

LitHouses warmly invites all writers' & musicians' houses & museums - and associated scholars, students & enthusiasts - to its 21st Annual Meeting at Newstead Abbey in the bicentennial year of Byron's death lithouses.org/download/2024L… 🖋🏡

Last call for our Newstead Byron 200 get-together - see you there! 🖋🏡

Marking the 40th anniversary of Ted Hughes becoming Poet Laureate, Dr David Rudrum, Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield and Secretary of the Elmet Trust, and Ruth Crossley, Head of Geography at Stoneyhurst College, explore his Mytholmroyd roots.

What a day to be at the 21st annual LitHouses conference, at snowy Newstead Abbey ❄️☃️❣️🏰 - big thanks to Henry Cobbold & Simon Brown for having us Historic Houses

Current custodians of literary houses gathered this week for their 21st Annual Conference. This is no ordinary work. They protect #heritage for this and future generations. Held this year at Newstead Abbey Nottingham which is celebrating #Byron200 bicententenial. LitHouses

Coming up on April 2nd, music from the time of John Milton with Emily Baines aka Emily Baines & her mini orchestra at the historic Mercers Hall in London in aid of the unique MiltonsCottage Museum. Tickets via Eventbrite UK eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-of-the…

V delighted to be speaking at this year's LitHouses conference about barriers to Gen Z's engagement with heritage. If you're interested in literary heritage, come along! A great day out at Elizabeth Gaskell's House - Join us on Insta & FB lithouses.org/AnnualConferen…

"Mesmerising Gen Z: In the Meme or in the Moment?" - 22nd Annual LitHouses Conference - 14th November 2025 - Elizabeth Gaskell's House, Manchester 🖋🏡 share.google/6cpnc2VeAtYxLP…