An Afternoon of Readings

Sunday 8th June 2025

Join us by crackling open fires for a very special afternoon where original letters, documents and poems will shed light on some key female figures in Raby’s history and their personalities, experience and beliefs. Our readings will include excerpts from the Handbook for Raby Castle (1870), written by the 4th Duchess of Cleveland as well as letters home written by Sally Coles Stevenson, wife of the American Ambassador.

This varied and entertaining afternoon presents the astonishing history of the castle through words left to us by the people who were once here.