#Nationaltrust

Continuing theme of landscapes & outdoors for #MuseumsUnlocked so today we are at #DevilsDyke in #SouthDowns formed by mischief of #satan trying to flood the Weald but thwarted by StCuthman.
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It's #HillfortsWednesday and, following government advice, we're staying local Here's the tree-lined ramparts of Coney's Castle @nationaltrust @DorsetAONB, no more than a 7 mile cycle ride from our own tribal
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Anyone else tuning in to @AWMurrison's attack on the @nationaltrust in the Westminster Hall debate he has convened (begins at 16.02)? A very good intervention by @KevinBrennanMP questioning a "witch
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Just to be clear, the BBC demeans itself with the ridiculous suggestion that the National Trust has gone ‘woke’ (please stop normalising this meaningless rightwing jargon!!)and it also trivialises an
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Archaeologists! Politicians and sections of the British media are attempting to pillory a timely, excellent and much-needed report exploring the connections of colonialism and historic slavery to National Trust properties.
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Sadly the #NationalTrust is becoming a joke. As #Hexham MP I want reform of this, once great, organisation. A thread on:- their redundancy plan - their £1Billion+ assets - and
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1. This is Eva Van Housen and Mark Collett.Well actually, she's called Jenna Smith. But for some patriotic reason she prefers to sound like a villain in Indiana Jones. (Thread)
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Took a walk across Brean Down this afternoon, and visited the fort located at its westerly tip. It was originally built in the 1860s (one of Palmerston’s Forts) and served
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Ranty thread about why the culture war stuff about history is bugging me more than I know it should. I'm not interested in demonstrating my woke credentials or promoting the
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The government is due to announce its ten-point plan next week “to kick start the low-carbon economy”, ahead of hosting December’s Climate Ambition Summit.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/05/uk-campaigners-set-out-plan
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News is emerging that significant numbers of garden staff are being made redundant @nationaltrust propertiesAppalling consequences for these world-renown gardens @BorisJohnson @cj_dinenage for the following reasonsThread:They're often t
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Here’s the glorious multivallate Iron Age hillfort (and Roman fort) atop #HodHill #Dorset @nationaltrust looking east in this aerial photo from 2016 © Jo and Sue CraneA thread to celebrate
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1. The prospect of repairing fragile items like pinned insects may bring conservators out in a cold sweat! Some years ago I developed a technique with Japanese fine Gampi tissue
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I just can’t. Government claiming it’ll defend free speech & stop “cancel culture”... by stifling academic freedom & defunding research that’s “political” 1/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/02/13/exclusive-uni
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1/15 Hi! I’ve really enjoyed all the papers this morning, and feel a bit nervous because I’m just beginning my work on this, so I’ve more questions than answers. I’m
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1/8: Something is better than nothing....but focussing on MORE #NationalParks and #AONBs is spectacularly missing the point! New national parks and thousands of green jobs under plans to build back
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