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News, stories, opportunities, and occasional memes from the National Trust's Research Team. You're welcome to contact us at research@nationaltrust.org.uk.
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🎉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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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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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
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🎧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
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🕊️ #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
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🎨 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
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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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Did you know that we've been caring for Northumberland's beautiful Farne Islands for 100 years?
The islands have over 1300 years of archaeology and hundreds of thousands of resident sea birds.
Find out more about research and conservation on the Farnes⬇️
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/north-...
August 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Over the last year we've been doing lots of work with
@uniofexeternews.bsky.social
to protect landscapes - from nature recovery and carbon storage to supporting health, food justice and heritage storytelling. Find out more at researchandinnovation.co.uk/creating-rea...
July 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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3. The pronunciation of scone is generational as well as regional. You're more likely to rhyme it with 'cone' if you're Gen Z or from Staffordshire, Derbyshire, South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire... or Essex.

📸NT Images / John Millar / Emily Roe
June 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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In the NT Research Team, we like our scones with a side of #NationalCreamTeaDay facts! Here are some of our favourites:
1. Queen Elizabeth II liked her scone jam first, then cream. (We're still on the fence.)
2. The first use of the phrase 'cream tea' dates from 1931 and included bread and butter.
June 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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📢Opportunity alert!
Are you a creative writer who loves #AgathaChristie? @nationaltrust.org.uk Greenway House and @exeter.ac.uk are looking for a writer to develop content for a new #HistoryScapes app trail (historyscapes.uk)
Find out more here ➡️ jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
June 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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We had a great time last Friday at our PhD Students' Summer #Conference. 40 collaborative PhD students, research staff and curators came to #Heelis, the NT head office, for papers, poster presentations, networking and lunch.

Lots of great conversations and plenty of tasty food!

#phdlife
June 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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📢We're recruiting for four new roles to support the @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social project!

Are you a PhD graduate hoping to solve the real-world challenges of biodiversity renewal? ➡️3 Postdoctoral Research Fellow posts now open careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/#/...

and...
June 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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🥳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.
June 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Just floating here, minding everybody else's business.👀

Happy World Otter Day! 🦦
May 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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📢 #job alert! #GLAMjobs #artsjobs

We're looking for two Creatives in Residence to work at Northern Irish NT houses in 2026, as part of the Historic Houses Global Crossroads project.

Find out more⬇️
Mount Stewart: treatiedspaces.com/creative-res...
Clandeboye: treatiedspaces.com/creative-res...
May 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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📢 #job alert!

We're looking for a Project Support Co-ordinator to join our small and friendly team. The role is full time and fixed term to cover a period of staff leave.

Find out more here ⬇️
careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/?_...
May 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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📢Opportunity alert! #jobs #phdchat #academia

Our partners in the REACH CDP Consortium are recruiting for four exciting PhD studentships, starting in October.

1. Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate... (apply by 26 May)
The Tower of London on a sunny day viewed from the Thames. © Bob Collowan, CC-BY-SA-4.0, Wikimedia Commons
May 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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📢Job alert!

Come and join our small, friendly team!
We're looking for a Research Officer to manage research approvals, reporting and communications, and help shape our research partnerships. 1.0 FTE for up to 1 year. #GLAMJobs

careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/?_...
📸NT Images/Steve Sayers
May 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Saturday 3 May is Local Bike Shop Day! 🚴‍♀️

So today seems as good a day as any to share one of the weirder objects in @nationaltrust.org.uk collections: the 'Velotrab', once owned by the playwright George Bernard Shaw.
May 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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When the spring heatwave hits hard.

📸National Trust Images/Rob Coleman
An adorable seal pup basking in the sunshine, eyes closed and smiling contentedly.
May 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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National Trust conservators at Knole, Kent are creating a huge new archive of paint samples, supported by a @ukri.org 'RICHeS' grant. This will help us learn how historic painted objects were made and how to care for them.

Find out more: www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve...

📸NT Images/James Dobson
April 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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There's just a week left to experience Tulip Mania at Dyrham Park, near Bath.

This year, you'll see a brand new variety, the elegant butter-yellow 'Dyrham Park' - inspired by the house's historic Dutch connections.

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/bath-b...

📸National Trust Images/Laura Williams
April 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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This St George's Day, meet 'Spike', who lives on the roof of Newark Park in Gloucestershire.🐉

Researchers think that Newark's owner installed Spike over 400 years ago to honour the Welsh-descended queen Elizabeth I.

And yes, that is real 18k gold plating.

📸National Trust Images/James Dobson
A bright gold dragon weathervane with scales, sharp teeth and a curling pointed tail, on top of a roof.
April 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM