National Trust

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• SOURCE: Financial Times
  4/28/2023
  

  The National Trust Must Update its Idea of What Makes History and Speak in Multiple Voices

  by Neil MacGregor

  Neither preserving sites of national glory nor stripping them of honor represents the true mission of the National Trust as a preserver of British history for the public. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/16/2021
  

  Britain’s Idyllic Country Houses Reveal a Darker History

  About a third of the historic homes managed by Britain's National Trust have been linked to fortunes made through slavery and colonialism. The agency's efforts to present this history has been controversial. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/12/2020
  

  The National Trust is under Attack Because it Cares about History, not Fantasy

  by Peter Mitchell

  Britain's historic preservation agency has become the target of conservative politicians who have interpreted the Trust's commissioning of a report evaluating the relationship of its projects to slavery as an attack on the nation's historical identity.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/22/2020
  

  U.K. Conservation Society Details Links to Colonialism and Slavery

  The British historic preservation agency has begun to grapple with how to present the historic connections between properties it manages and fortunes built through slavery and colonialism.