🍂 Autumn is here at Strawberry Hill! 🍂 A reminder, we’re now open Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–4pm — closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, but open on Thursdays and Fridays so you can begin your weekend wander a little sooner. 💫 Step inside a Gothic masterpiece and soak up the golden glow of the season. 🕯️🏰 Plan your visit → strawberryhillhouse.org.uk If you’re already dreaming of darker nights… 👻 Halloween at Horace Walpole’s Gothic Castle runs from 25 October – 2 November, and tickets are available now! strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/halloween 🎃 📸 Matt Chung #StrawberryHillHouse #GothicRevival #AutumnDays #ThingsToDoInLondon #Twickenham #HistoricHouses (fb)

✨ Henry VIII’s Lost Dagger: From the Tudor Court to the Victorian Stage ✨ Forged in sixteenth-century Istanbul, a jewelled Ottoman dagger dazzled Europe with its jade and gold. Centuries later, Horace Walpole displayed it at Strawberry Hill, believing it had once belonged to Henry VIII. Antiquarians sketched it, engravers fixed its Tudor legend in print, and in 1842 it left Strawberry Hill for the collection of Shakespearean actor Charles Kean. This landmark exhibition reunites two surviving daggers of the same rare group—brought together for the first time in over 400 years—and uncovers how myth, memory, and scholarship forged the afterlife of a lost treasure. ⚔️ Henry VIII’s Lost Dagger: From the Tudor Court to the Victorian Stage 📅 1 November 2025 – 15 February 2026 📍 Strawberry Hill House & Garden, free with general admission 🔗: strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/lost-dagger — 🌙 Strawberry Hill After Dark: The Lost Dagger 🌙 Step into Walpole’s candlelit castle after hours, with a rosewater spritz in hand and an expert talk illuminating the dagger’s world. 📅 Fri 21 Nov 2025 – Walpole, Wolsey and the World Beyond with Professor Glenn Richardson (SMU), exploring Walpole’s internationalist outlook and Cardinal Wolsey’s vision of England in a global age. 📅 Thu 22 Jan 2026 – Henry VIII’s Kunstkammer with Timothy Schroder FSA, uncovering the Tudor king’s cabinet of curiosities at Whitehall and the treasures that filled it. 📅 Thu 5 Feb 2026 – Shakespeare Reimagined with Professor Robin Simon (UCL), tracing how antiquarian research transformed ideas of authenticity on the stage. 🎟 Standard: £25 | Students: £17.50 👉 BOOK NOW: strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/lost-dagger-after-dark (fb)