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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.
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RENEWBiodiversity.bsky.social @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social · 6d
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.
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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 1d
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
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · 9d
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
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · 12d
Yes, it was fabulous wasn't it Joan! Really glad you enjoyed hearing it.
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · 13d
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...
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · 19d
📍 Aldeburgh | Northumberland | Seaton Delaval
#UKRI #FutureLeadersFellowship
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · 19d
🎧Excited2help preserve England's East Coast soundscapes!
Teaming up w/@mybcu.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @manmetuni.bsky.social [email protected] 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
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · 23d
🕊️ #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
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · 29d
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · 29d
🎨 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
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Sep 3
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
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · Aug 27
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.
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Aug 26
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
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · Aug 19
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.
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Aug 18
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
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Aug 13
What do Carlyle's House, Brownsea Island, Chartwell, and 20 Forthlin Road all have in common?

Hint, happy #lefthanders day... 👀
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RENEWBiodiversity.bsky.social @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social · Aug 13
An exciting new ExCASES report presents findings from their ‘Future of #Biodiversity Renewal’ mission; exploring the #diversity of #values, #worldviews & understandings that shape aspirations towards biodiversity renewal amongst the RENEW #community.

More:
renewbiodiversity.org.uk/excases-miss...
A photograph of a person walking across a field surrounded by hedgerow, in the distance the skyline of a town is visible. The photograph was taken by Nick Seagrave, on Unsplash
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Aug 12
Thanks for spreading the word @claireboardman.bsky.social and @fidaisyg.bsky.social! If you know anyone who might be suited to the roles we're advertising, we would really love to hear from them 💚
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Aug 11
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-...
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Aug 1
At Avebury this summer, visitors can learn all about Neolithic life and the earliest archaeologists with brand new mobile phone games.
Learn more about the #LoGaCulture project, with @bournemouthuni.bsky.social and @unisouthampton.bsky.social, here ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Avebury stone circle visitors can learn with new games
Several organisations are involved in the apps, designed to help visitors get more from visits to Avebury.
www.bbc.co.uk
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University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social · Jul 21
The final (in a series of six) of Natural England’s short films about the beauty of Southwest England’s protected sites in collaboration with @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social. Each film includes two short poems, written by ESI affiliate John Wedgewood Clarke.
🌿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIvg...
Otter Estuary – Where nature returns…
YouTube video by Natural England
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Jul 15
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...
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Jul 11
Our tiny central research team is privileged to work with so many amazing and dedicated people across the National Trust to plan, do, support and use research to help our places. Especially during this bruising time for staff, we value you and your contributions immensely.
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Jul 4
This weekend, the Buckland Abbey team are welcoming a 600-year-old book back to the site for the first time since 1539.
NT and @exeter.ac.uk researchers have transcribed and recorded the rare music in the book, which is on loan from @britishlibrary.bsky.social.
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Discovery of rare medieval music brings sounds of monks back to Devon abbey for first time in 500 years
For the first time in nearly five centuries, Buckland Abbey in Devon will resonate once more with the sacred sounds of monastic music, thanks to research into a rare 15th-century manuscript and a coll...
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National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social · Jul 3
🎉We're thrilled to be partnering with @universityofhull.bsky.social on their new @ukri.org Doctoral Focal Award 'Living Well with Water'. This will support 39 PhD students over the next 7 years, connecting environmental, health and arts and humanities research.
www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us...
University of Hull to lead major partnership addressing coastal resilience
University of Hull to lead a new doctoral research partnership tackling water-related risks and building healthier more water-resilient coastal communities
www.hull.ac.uk
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