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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Jun 11
🥳The National Trust's third Annual Research Report is here!

Learn all about our research over the past year, and how it's helping us look after nature, beauty and history for everyone, for ever.

You can download the report from our Research Repository ⬇️
nt.iro.bl.uk/concern/repo...
A young person with long blue hair, a maroon jacket and glasses studying a model boat at Snowshill Manor.
researchnt.bsky.social
🎶On the Tuesday before Christmas Research at the National Trust gave to me
🎵A 500 year wait for Buckland music
🎲20+ new games for Avebury stone circle
🌿£3m for 3 transformative Green Corridors
🐾8 Paws for Thoughts Recommendations
🌳5 Be’s for Urban Trees
…and nature recovery with BVLOS drones🎶
A gingerbread man in a Christmas tree at Blickling Estate, Norfolk ©National Trust Images/Rob Coleman
December 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
researchnt.bsky.social
🎶On the 6th day before Christmas, Research at the National Trust gave to me 🎶
⏱️17 micro internships
🌱9 Seed Fund projects
🌳6 years as an IRO
👏5 PhD completions
🙌3 newly externally funded projects this year
... and a Strategic Partnerships #KnowledgeExchangeUK Award 🎶
Festive Christmas decorations in the Octagon Room at Basildon Park, Berkshire ©National Trust Images/Megan Taylor
December 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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ukri.org
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 Knowledge Exchange Awards!

These projects demonstrate exceptional achievements in knowledge exchange, innovation and collaboration, showing how research collaboration deliver benefits for people and the economy.

Explore: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-ce...
KE Awards 2025 winners image. Credit: Knowledge Exchange UK
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
researchnt.bsky.social
We're so privileged to be part of this partnership, and very proud indeed of our colleagues at both institutions who have made it happen 🙌🌟
Onwards and upwards!
cornwall.exeter.ac.uk University of Exeter, Cornwall @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk · 26d
A unique partnership between the University of Exeter and the National Trust received a prestigious award. The ‘Shaping Landscapes for People and Nature to Thrive’ partnership was a winner at the Knowledge Exchange UK Awards in the Strategic Partnerships category.

@renewbiodiversity.bsky.social
Exeter and National Trust partnership wins Knowledge Exchange award
A unique partnership between the University of Exeter and the National Trust has received a prestigious award. The 'Shaping Landscapes for People and Nature to Thrive' partnership was a winner at the Knowledge Exchange UK
news.exeter.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
researchnt.bsky.social
🎉Exciting news! 🏆Together with our research partner the University of Exeter, we have won in the Strategic Partnership category at the #KnowledgeExchangeUK Awards! Read more about the work researchandinnovation.co.uk/creating-rea...
Exeter Blog Creating real-world impact: The University of Exeter and the National Trust
Creating real-world impact: The University of Exeter and the National Trust
researchandinnovation.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
researchnt.bsky.social
🤩Excited to be heading to the KE Awards 2025 tomorrow! Our partnership 🫶with the University of Exeter has been shortlisted as a finalist in the KE Awards 2025!🏅See ke.org.uk/news/finalis... Read about the partnership: researchandinnovation.co.uk/creating-rea... #KnowledgeExchangeUK #KEUK #KEAwards25
Exeter Blog Creating real-world impact: The University of Exeter and the National Trust
Creating real-world impact: The University of Exeter and the National Trust
researchandinnovation.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
researchnt.bsky.social
We're proud to be a partner on this project, which is bringing the stories of carpets to life - they're much more than just somewhere to put your feet 👣
emilylsteve.bsky.social Emily Stevenson @emilylsteve.bsky.social · Nov 18
The website for Knotted Histories is now up at tinyurl.com/2tszcc2f 🧶✨🧵The project is run between @engfac.bsky.social, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social and @researchnt.bsky.social, and will be looking at the creation of early modern carpets as well as their role in global networks.
Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange, and the Public Country House
tinyurl.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
researchnt.bsky.social
Humanity's future depends on strong, resilient ecosystems.🌳🐿️🐝🌱🦋

We've written a report with partners including @newcastleuni.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social presenting a big-picture ecosystem approach to restoring nature.

Read it here: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
Nature recovery requires whole-ecosystem action
With one in six species threatened with extinction in the UK, senior ecologists are calling for an ecosystem approach to halt nature decline.
www.ncl.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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renewbiodiversity.bsky.social
as well as finding quicker better & more creative ways to build positive visions of environmentally just #futures.

#renewparliament2025 | #renewbiodiversity | #isnatureforall?
A graphic card with a painting of a person connected to the earth by Ria Poole and the words 'Biodiversity Parliament 2025. Is Nature for all? Exploring Environmental Justice.' displayed on the front.
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
researchnt.bsky.social
🎉Celebrating 1 Year of #RICHeS with #UKRI🌟 by spotlighting the National Trust Paint Archive project which will create an archive of paint samples 🎨from historic interiors across NT properties, unlocking new insights into the UK’s material🪑and cultural heritage.
www.riches.ukri.org/funding/rich...
CANALETTO - A Self-Portrait (1697-1768) with St Pauls in the background at Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire. ©National Trust Images/Hamilton Kerr Inst/Chris Titmus
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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renewbiodiversity.bsky.social
Content Alert: The @nationaltrust.org.uk's nature pages are absolutely brimming with incredible #biodiversity content from Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles to Naturehood: Urban nature walks & challenges via the free app: @gojauntly.bsky.social

#renewbiodiversity
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/nat...
Discover the UK's natural environment
Learn how the National Trust helps to protect our nature. Embrace the beauty and tackle the challenges of the British environment with us.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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nattrustarch.bsky.social
*NEWS* We’re delighted to share that from 2026, the National Trust will take on the care & management of Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust museums, collections & properties, supported by Department for Culture, Media & Sport funding.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/shrops...

#industrialheritage
Ironbridge Gorge transfer
Museums in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire will transfer to the care of the National Trust from spring 2026
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
researchnt.bsky.social
Samuel Shaw - researcher on the National Trust-led TREASURE project - explores how the Trust’s art collections can inspire floodplain meadow restoration by reconnecting heritage & ecological practice📍Attingham 📖 Link: theconversation.com/how-the-nati...
#NatureRecovery #ArtAndEcology#TREASUREProject
River Tern at Attingham Park, Shropshire ©National Trust Images/Trevor Ray Hart
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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renewbiodiversity.bsky.social
We’re celebrating #NationalPoetryDay by exploring the rhythmic world beneath & above the water.

‘Pond Beats’ worked with school children to create #biodiverse soundscapes intertwined with the potent imagination of this new generation of #eco-poetry makers...

…What happened next... 👇👇👇
A photograph of a pond taken in water with views above and below the waterline.
October 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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laurenworking.bsky.social
Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House
Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
researchnt.bsky.social
𖥂🎮 𖥂 Delivery drones alert! With AutoSpray Systems, we're testing using long-range, heavy-lift 🏋️drones to restore peatland 🌱 by delivering 🌟✨ environmental materials to multiple remote and ecologically sensitive areas 🗺️📍ENG WLS NI
www.gov.uk/government/n... #innovateUK #FutureFlight #NationalTrust
Using a drone to photograph the giant from above at Cerne Abbas, Dorset ©National Trust Images/Clive Whitbourn
September 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
researchnt.bsky.social
Tune into Radio 3 this Sunday at 5pm to hear our Research Officer Daisy speaking about this fabulous exhibition and the 500-year-old music that it's uncovered - and hear the music sung by the @exeter.ac.uk Chapel Choir.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
September 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
researchnt.bsky.social
🎧Excited2help preserve England's East Coast soundscapes!
Teaming up w/@mybcu.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @manmetuni.bsky.social &@suffolkarchives.bsky.social on a £1.4M project to capture the region’s #SonicHeritage- from🐦birdsong to🚢foghorns—using VR🕶️,3D tech🖥️&comm'ty wkshops
Wind sweeping sand across the beach, Northumberland Coast; Property name: Dunstanburgh Castle ©National Trust Images/John Millar
September 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
researchnt.bsky.social
🕊️ #FaithFreedomFriendship
Explore the story of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther & Sir Thomas Dyke Acland – a friendship that shaped reform, education & faith
📍 Killerton Chapel #NationalTrust
📅 Sept 12–Nov 2 '25
Supported by PhD student @mollygroarke.bsky.social
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/devon/...
View of The Chapel of the Holy Evangelists at Killerton showing the altar, choir stalls, stained glass windows & the lectern in the foreground. The chapel was built in 1841 by Sir T Acland. ©National Trust Images/Dennis Gilbert
September 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
researchnt.bsky.social
🎨 Apply by 29 Sept 2025 for a £10,000 Artist Residency at Mount Stewart, Co. Down! Part of the Historic Houses, Global Crossroads research, the 6-week residency (May–June 2026) invites artists to explore global plant networks & reimagine the site’s ecological legacy🌿See link in thread.
A green garden with a circular pond in the centre, with stairs leading up to a large house in the backdrop. - View of the house from the Spanish garden at Mount Stewart, County Down ©National Trust Images/James Dobson
September 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
researchnt.bsky.social
Celebrating ESEA Heritage Month @Mount Stewart! In July, we welcomed Belfast’s Chinese Welfare Association for a workshop exploring East Asian links, part of the Historic Houses, Global Crossroads research project— including visiting a thriving acer planted in 2011 treatiedspaces.com/historic-hou...
White feathery plant with the red leaves of the acer palm in the background - Autumn colours at Mount Stewart, Count Down ©National Trust Images/Chris Lacey
September 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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nattrustarch.bsky.social
If you fancy getting #OutintheField, why not pick up a copy of Landmarks and Legends by Jo Woolf, a beautifully illustrated book which reveals the secrets and stories of fifty icons of Britain’s landscape, including Cheddar Gorge, Avebury, Uffington White Horse and Sutton Hoo.
August 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
researchnt.bsky.social
Every term we host six fabulous 'micro-interns' from @ox.ac.uk to help research at Trust properties for a week. @torchoxford.bsky.social

Postgrad music student Anna has shared her findings on a unique manuscript that survived the 2015 fire at Clandon Park ⬇️

www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/this...
“This requires explanation”: The “Family Verses” of Clandon Park
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
August 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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rspb.bsky.social
Note to self: Be more Red Kite. 🔥💅

📷 Paul Browning
A Red Kite stands with talons crossed like it’s on a catwalk, chest out and feathers glowing in the light. Its piercing stare and effortless poise make it look like the embodiment of self-assurance, the kind of confidence mere humans can only aspire to.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
researchnt.bsky.social
We've just come back from a weekend at Buckland Abbey, where the @exeter.ac.uk Chapel Choir have been bringing monastic music back to the abbey for the first time in 500 years.

The 600-year-old Buckland Book is on display in the Abbey until 31 October.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
Monastic music that survived Henry VIII’s dissolution brought back to life
Buckland Abbey recreates music telling of medieval life in extraordinary discovery
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM