Same, Magpie Inkcap mushroom, same. 📸NT Images / Rob Coleman

Interrogate and unlock the second largest oral history collection held at the Library, in a doctoral fellowship in collaboration with ‪@researchnt.bsky.social‬ Find out more and apply by Friday 5 June. link.bl.uk/7ts

#worldbeeday Red Tailed, Carder and Buff Tailed, all battling against the wind for some flower grub! @nationaltrust.org.uk @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

This week is Solitary Bee Week 🐝 At Godrevy in Cornwall, we're working with @bisschrisson.bsky.social of @plymuni.bsky.social. He's researching how 'hemiparasitic' plants (that's plants that partly feed on others) can benefit pollinators like this hard-working little Miner Bee. 📸Chris Bisson

From Saturday at Saltram, you can see this painting on display - Reynolds' first ever painting showing a person of colour - and find out more about the boy it depicts. It's been an honour to help recentre Boston Jersey (or should that be George?) and retell his story.

Just leaving this here for anyone who's not seen it yet 👀 Come and help us get our Sound Archive ready to open to researchers and the public. Open to all current PhD students pre-submission, up to 6 months from September 2026. @nationaltrust.org.uk @britishlibrary.bsky.social

If we miss your email this week, it's probably because we've been watching the most adorable feathery parents feeding their brand new chicks. Watch live now from the Longshaw Estate to add a bit of nature to your work day. @nationaltrust.org.uk #WindowtotheWild www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBM_...

✨Funded placement opportunity✨with @nationaltrust.org.uk and @britishlibrary.bsky.social! We're looking for a PhD student to work on the National Trust Sound Archive of oral history interviews. 3 months FT or 6 months PT from September. For more info, see www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/r...

📢Funded doctoral placement alert! The @nationaltrust.org.uk and @britishlibrary.bsky.social are looking for a PhD student to work on the National Trust Sound Archive of oral history interviews. 3 months FT or 6 months PT from September. For more info, see www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/r...

Our brilliant @cam.ac.uk collaborative PhD student, Molly, has published a blog post all about her research into antislavery at Killerton. There's a rich and complex story here - empire, philanthropy, patriotism, religion, imperialism, antislavery, racism all intertwined. Find out more ⬇️

📢Funded PhD studentship alert! Are you interested in using digital tools to make heritage spaces accessible? You might be the perfect candidate for our new collaborative PhD with @uniofsurrey.bsky.social. Find out more: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The people behind NT Research 👀 We've had a great time at Killerton this week. The team there told us all about how they're restoring woodlands and hedgerows on a vast landscape scale. We're excited to help plan the research needed to make this beautiful place accessible to everyone.

🌳Professor Rosie Hails (NT's Nature and Science Director 🌿) will be speaking at this summer's Exeter Climate Forum⛅, which has at its heart the Exeter Climate Conference. 🗓️29 June-1 July 2026, University of Exeter, Streatham Campus🏛️ 🔍Read more about the event/sign up: exeterclimateforum.com 🌤️

Have you visited 'The Secret Lives of Paintings' yet? 🎨🖼️🔍 Discover new findings about Stourhead's most intriguing artworks in this year's exhibition. Even in the 18th century, pictures weren't always as they seem. Sharing research with visitors = our favourite thing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last week our 'Knotted Histories' team with @ox.ac.uk took samples of the carpet at Knole (best known as Vita Sackville-West's house). They're hoping to find out when and where the carpet was made. Spot the hidden parrot photographed by postdoc researcher @emilylsteve.bsky.social 🦜

It's World Bear Day, so here's a bear who's had it with all this. #MosaicMonday

Last week Dr Stephanie Pratt, art historian and cultural ambassador for the Crow Creek Dakota Nation, and Prof Clare Taylor @openuniversity.bsky.social visited us at Dunster Castle. Their work on Dunster's collections will help us tell new stories for everyone - lots of questions still to answer!

On the theme of #MedievalMarch we’re exploring some of the gardens in the care of the National Trust with medieval features. Original gardens dating from this period are rare, but some individual elements such as walls, dovecotes and fishponds, still remain. Find out more here: bit.ly/40BMoj9

March 5th is #CornwallDay, so we're resharing the opportunity to see St Michael's Mount on #DiggingforBritain. A team from Durham University and the National Trust were searching for evidence of Bronze Age tin processing on the island. You can watch it on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

It's Cornwall Day 〓〓 so we're celebrating some Cornish research! Art historians working on the 17th-century Long Gallery ceiling at Lanhydrock have found that its pictures - which show stories from the Book of Genesis - came from books printed all over Europe. www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/his...

🌿 Discover how research is shaping the future of our work! We’re proud of our research collaborations that help us protect nature, heritage, and historic places for everyone.🏛️🌳 🔍Explore our current partnerships and learn how we work together to create impact: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/r...

This painting, 'Stourhead in its Infancy', shows the Wiltshire estate in the early 1700s - or does it? New National Trust research has shown that all's not what it seems! See for yourself in the new exhibition 'The Secret Lives of Paintings', at Stourhead from 14 March. 📸National Trust Images

Sound on 🎧to join our collaborative PhD student Ruth on her research trip to Tyntesfield last week! This silver-covered prayer book was copied in France in the early 16th century. We think it's probably the National Trust's most beautiful medieval book... @openuniversity.bsky.social 📸Daisy Gibbs

Presenting the Proceedings of the NT PhD Conference 2025! 🎉 Inside you'll find papers by our talented collaborative students, exploring topics like neurodiversity in heritage and women in 19th century libraries. Download from our Research Repository: nt.iro.bl.uk/concern/conf...

🗓️On 10th March at 6pm, #NationalTrust conservation scientist Valentina Risdonne chairs an online webinar 🖥️ on 🏡'Interiors, Exteriors & Sculptures'🏛️as part of Discovering #HeritageScience series 🔍during #BritishScienceWeek ✍️Register & see more webinars here: nationaltrust.webex.com/webappng/sit...

🤩Throwback to last summer🌅 when Ken the diver joined a group of volunteer researchers to gather fortnightly data from beneath the waves 🌊on the health of seagrass meadows🌿 at #StudlandBay in Dorset - seahorse sightings included 🐟+🐴 More details at www.dorsetcoasthaveyoursay.co.uk/studland-bay... ⚓

🎶On the Tuesday before Christmas Research at the National Trust gave to me 🎵A 500 year wait for Buckland music 🎲20+ new games for Avebury stone circle 🌿£3m for 3 transformative Green Corridors 🐾8 Paws for Thoughts Recommendations 🌳5 Be’s for Urban Trees …and nature recovery with BVLOS drones🎶

🎶On the 6th day before Christmas, Research at the National Trust gave to me 🎶 ⏱️17 micro internships 🌱9 Seed Fund projects 🌳6 years as an IRO 👏5 PhD completions 🙌3 newly externally funded projects this year ... and a Strategic Partnerships #KnowledgeExchangeUK Award 🎶

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 Knowledge Exchange Awards! These projects demonstrate exceptional achievements in knowledge exchange, innovation and collaboration, showing how research collaboration deliver benefits for people and the economy. Explore: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-ce...

We're so privileged to be part of this partnership, and very proud indeed of our colleagues at both institutions who have made it happen 🙌🌟 Onwards and upwards!

🎉Exciting news! 🏆Together with our research partner the University of Exeter, we have won in the Strategic Partnership category at the #KnowledgeExchangeUK Awards! Read more about the work researchandinnovation.co.uk/creating-rea...

🤩Excited to be heading to the KE Awards 2025 tomorrow! Our partnership 🫶with the University of Exeter has been shortlisted as a finalist in the KE Awards 2025!🏅See ke.org.uk/news/finalis... Read about the partnership: researchandinnovation.co.uk/creating-rea... #KnowledgeExchangeUK #KEUK #KEAwards25

We're proud to be a partner on this project, which is bringing the stories of carpets to life - they're much more than just somewhere to put your feet 👣

Humanity's future depends on strong, resilient ecosystems.🌳🐿️🐝🌱🦋 We've written a report with partners including @newcastleuni.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social presenting a big-picture ecosystem approach to restoring nature. Read it here: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

as well as finding quicker better & more creative ways to build positive visions of environmentally just #futures. #renewparliament2025 | #renewbiodiversity | #isnatureforall?

🎉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...

Content Alert: The @nationaltrust.org.uk's nature pages are absolutely brimming with incredible #biodiversity content from Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles to Naturehood: Urban nature walks & challenges via the free app: @gojauntly.bsky.social #renewbiodiversity www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/nat...

*NEWS* We’re delighted to share that from 2026, the National Trust will take on the care & management of Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust museums, collections & properties, supported by Department for Culture, Media & Sport funding. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/shrops... #industrialheritage

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

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... 👇👇👇

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...

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

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...

🎧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

🕊️ #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/...

🎨 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.

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...

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.

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...

Note to self: Be more Red Kite. 🔥💅 📷 Paul Browning