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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

More than 40 UK museums and conservators donate personal protective equipment to help NHS fight coronavirus

Conservation departments are sending gloves, masks and Tyvek suits to hospitals and ambulance services

National Trust wrongly accused of asset-stripping while government fails to keep its word

The Trust is negotiating endowments with the Treasury for five major country houses in its care

Going undercover: Scotland's leaky Mackintosh treasure shielded by 197-tonne chainmail box

Hill House in Helensburgh has been covered to protect it from the rain while National Trust makes conservation plans

How Qatar sidestepped the UK export system again

V&A and National Trust hoped to buy Clive of India’s treasures

English Heritage to be split up

Reforms mean a charity, moving towards self-funding, will run historic buildings, with state-funded agency to manage built environment

National Trust Scotland faces member revolt

Members express concern about running of Trust

Fate of historic Scottish houses under severe threat

Concerns over collections as National Trust for Scotland closes three properties

National Trust needs £2m for Kenyan poet’s house

Otherwise the Wandworth house's unique fretwork decoration could be lost

Tatearchive

Tate's Van Dyck show on rocky ground as insurance obstacle may detain several works

Five iconic portraits may not be loaned to the exhibition due to legal anomaly

Late Kenyan poet’s extraordinary house offered to National Trust

1815 Wandsworth villa with unique wooden fretwork interior

National Trust's total cost of saving Tyntesfield may be £50 million

The Trust is applying for a further £20 million grant to set up an endowment

Serious threats to England’s historic environment, says official report

English Heritage’s first “State of the Nation” report appeals for tax changes to help save country houses

National Trust buys William Morris’s house

Red House, Bexleyheath, to be preserved for the nation

William Morris’s house for the National Trust?

National Trust considers acquiring the Red House, Bexleyheath

UK's National Trust to catalogue its books collection with US funding

Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses

From the archive | Waddesdon, Museum of the Year and the exemplar of a Rothschild house

Jacob Rothschild, the banker and former head of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, always took a deeply personal interest in the last of the great Rothschild houses

Booksarchive

The haphazard methods of art restoration over the past 400 years

Christine Sitwell and Sarah Staniforth (eds), Studies in the history of painting restoration

Booksarchive

Museum and National Trust approaches to textile conservation

A valuable collection of papers from a recent symposium

National Trust finds rare Gothic altarpiece in stables

Seven hundred year-old painting was dismissed as nineteenth-century

Auctionsarchive

Mementoes of former glory in Ickworth sale

Sotheby’s were successful; the National Trust furious