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National Trust à la française? French culture minister considers plans for new heritage body based on UK model

Centre des Monuments Nationaux has also signed agreements with the National Trust, the National Trust for Scotland and English Heritage

Job cuts at National Trust could pose threat to charity's mission, union says

Up to 550 jobs could be axed at the charity as part of a bid to save £26m, despite rising visitor numbers

Symbol of a scandalous Victorian love story, long-lost silver stag sculpture goes on show

The work featuring two stags locked in combat was made for George Harry Grey, 7th Earl of Stamford, who outraged society by marrying a former circus performer

Conservation of Tintoretto painting in UK reveals ‘layer of history hiding under the surface’

Research on ‘Wise and Foolish Virgins’, which is going back on display at the National Trust’s Upton House in Warwickshire, has revealed alterations made by the Venetian artist and others over time

National Trust paint archive promises to bring secrets to light

Thousands of historic paint samples—'miniature cultural assets packed with answers to questions yet to be asked'—will be analysed at Kent facility

Lacquered box at Rudyard Kipling’s former home revealed to be rare example of South American decorative art

A small casket, said to be a Barniz de Paso work, a largely forgotten form of varnishing, was found at the writer's house in East Sussex

National Trust announces plans to address UK's mental health crisis

As part of its ten-year strategy, the heritage organisation will work with mental health charity Mind

Art and technology shows in London and Los Angeles, a restored 17th-century cosmic atlas—podcast

Curators at Tate and Los Angeles County Museum of Art discuss the ways in which technology has shaped artists’ work, plus a chat about the “mesmerising” Harmonia Macrocosmica

‘My grandfather would be horrified’: protests against National Trust’s links to Barclays take place across UK

National Trust staff, volunteers and members will lead parades, live music and protest picnics at 40 of the charity's locations

From a fox to a silky chicken: centuries-old paper cuttings discovered under floorboards of National Trust house

The objects are believed to have been made by students in the 17th century, when Sutton House was a school

Getting plastered: major conservation work begins on an extraordinary ceiling in Cornwall

Visitors have the unique chance to see the barrel-vaulted ceiling of the Long Gallery at Lanhydrock up close thanks to a scaffolding platform

Mary Beard calls for National Trust to ‘loosen up’ in its handling of heritage

The historian, giving a lecture at London's Royal Society, argued that by taking a freer approach to its buildings and collections, the conservation charity could fend off populist critics

The National Trust keeps its critics at bay for now, but will the populist threat return this year?

The UK conservation charity has rejected fresh attempts by the activist group Restore Trust to infiltrate its council, but those close to the issue feel the campaigns are likely far from over

Waddesdon Manor’s elephant swings its trunk once more

Restored to its former glory, the 200kg automaton is now on show at the Buckingham mansion

Director of Restore Trust, campaign group putting pressure on National Trust, steps down from role

Zewditu Gebreyohanes said she had made the decision six months ago, and that it was not connected to members rejecting the group's councillors and resolutions at the weekend's general meeting

Radical plan to restore Clandon Park rejected by members at National Trust annual meeting

Restore Trust campaign group also failed to secure seats on heritage body’s governing council

Who are the culture warriors? A closer look at the group piling pressure on the National Trust

Restore Trust wants to “knock common sense” into the National Trust—but a look at who is behind the group reveals some familiar figures who have long been pushing a hard-right agenda

Peter York

What’s behind the row engulfing the UK’s National Trust?

Plus, a protest-themed tenth edition of the Performa Biennial and a restored portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger

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Revamp of fire-damaged Clandon Park galvanises National Trust ‘woke’ row

Campaign group Restore Trust accuses organisation of backtracking on its restoration plans for the 18th-century Palladian mansion

Munstead Wood, a masterpiece of Arts and Crafts, is acquired by the National Trust

Government funding helps acquire Surrey house and garden that launched the global careers of the architect Edwin Lutyens and the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, whose home it was for nearly 40 years

Is the UK National Trust influenced by a campaign group funded by lobbyists?

Restore Trust presents itself as a grassroots organisation of National Trust members. But senior lawyers are claiming it is funded by powerful, hidden sources

UK heritage charity the National Trust is ending the year richer than ever—so why all the staff cuts?

The more than 1,700 workers who lost their jobs last year have every right to feel aggrieved as Trust weathers storm regardless of staff savings

Visiting a historic house should be about more than just cream teas and crocuses—their full histories, however unsettling, should be told

Being told about National Trust houses' connections to slavery should not deter visitors: the complex history adds to their interest

Too woke? National Trust chair Tim Parker steps down

Rebel group of members planned to depose heritage chief following row over controversial research into charity’s historic ties to slavery

National Trust's report on colonial and slavery history did not breach charity law, regulator says

Research commissioned by the trust provoked complaints from Conservative politicians amid UK culture war around controversial monuments

Thanks to a £3m gift, the National Trust could finally uncover a secret portrait of Mary Queen of Scots

Conservation boost from a US charity comes after the heritage organisation faced a £200m revenue collapse due to the pandemic

Nearly 450 heritage rescue grants announced from UK's £1.57bn cultural bailout fund

First funding round hailed as a "lifeline" for heritage sites and specialists reeling from the pandemic, but job losses continue

National Trust—UK's largest conservation charity—to cut 1,300 jobs

The coronavirus-hit heritage body looks to save around £100m through redundancies

National Trust restructuring plans are ‘one of the most damaging assaults on art historical expertise ever seen in the UK’

Job cuts and planned repurposing of country houses will lead to a corporatisation of the nation's heritage sites

UK's historic houses fight for survival post-lockdown after financial crash

Heritage organisations such as the National Trust rely on visitors for most of their income—but they have been staying away