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Wealth and Poverty Christopher St John
After Craig's death, Sackville-West provided financial assistance to the very poor CSJ and Tony Atwood (who was then over eighty). The money was enough to cover their living expenses until negotiations with the National Trust
Wealth and Poverty Edna Lyall
One of her latest charitable donations was for the purchase of Brandelhow near Crosthwaite (a wood which was otherwise to be cleared for housing development) for what became the National Trust . Brandelhow, acquired in...
Wealth and Poverty Josephine Tey
JT left an astonishing estate of close to £25,000. She willed the bulk of this to the National Trust , with particular bequests to her sister Moire and to the Inverness Museum.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press.
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Travel Agatha Christie
A year or so before war broke out, AC and her husband bought a country house in Devon as a holiday escape from their other homes in Oxfordshire and London. This was Greenway at...
Travel John Dryden
The family estate of the Drydens (held by the poet's grandfather but not inherited by his father) was at Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire (now owned by the National Trust and open to the public). The...
Textual Production Beatrix Potter
Leslie Linder bequeathed his extensive collection of BP 's papers, paintings, and first editions to the National Trust . The trust holds its Potter manuscripts at Near Sawrey in the Lake District; others are...
Textual Production E. Arnot Robertson
This too she dedicated to, and in reproof of, her husband , calling him her sailing partner and recalling some words he had used about her, which in the novel she puts in the mouth...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
The Bookseller magazine announced in June 2009 the expected appearance (which duly followed the same year) of AC 's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making, based by the self-confessed Christie arch-fan...
Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
As public poet rather than laureate, she has contributed, for instance, to publicizing the National Trust 's competition for countryside poems. Her poem Moniack Mhor (inspired by time spent at the Scottish Writers' Centre ,...
Textual Production Constance Smedley
Maxwell Armfield 's frontispiece to Commoners' Rights, 1912, shows Chippingdun, the book's fictional version of Minchinhampton. His later illustrations also show the town or its beautiful surroundings. The work is dedicated to...
Textual Features Dorothy Wellesley
Poems are included here from several groups. Verses for the Middle-aged (collected later for separate publication as Rhymes for Middle Years) is a collection of absurdities: England (about the image of the country as...
Residence Henry James
After his humiliating experience on stage at the opening of his play Guy Domville on 5 January 1895, he withdrew from London to Rye in Sussex, where he rented and eventually bought Lamb House...
Residence Rudyard Kipling
In England in 1902 RK bought a seventeenth-century house called Bateman's at Burwash in Sussex, which is now maintained by the National Trust and is the place most closely connected with his name. He...
Residence Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM spent most of her time at a handsome rented villa, Middlethorpe Hall near York, with her baby, often without her husband .
She would proably have been glad to know that Middlethorpe became...
Residence William Morris
Morris sold the house in 1865 and moved closer to his work in London. Red House was privately owned until it was acquired by the National Trust in January 2003 and later opened to the...

Timeline

23-24 June 1314: The English attempt to conquer Scotland was...

National or international item

23-24 June 1314

The English attempt to conquer Scotland was fought off by Scottish forces under Robert Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn near Stirling.

12 January 1895: The National Trust was founded at Grosvenor...

Building item

12 January 1895

The National Trust was founded at Grosvenor House in London by Octavia Hill , Hardwicke Rawnsley , and Robert Hunter (who had been working towards its opening for nearly a year).

4 July 1940: The British government launched a project...

National or international item

4 July 1940

The British government launched a project known as Auxiliary Units , with headquarters at Coleshill House near Faringdon in Berkshire.
“Secret wartime past revealed”. National Trust: Near you, Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Hampshire / Oxfordshire / Isle of Wight / London.
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Texts

National Trust Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 1997 to March 1998. National Trust, 1997.