Northumberland National Park: Governmentality and the Recent and Not-So-Recent History of Thirlwell Castle

英国国家公园的历史主要集中在导致1949年国家公园法通过的政治过程，随后的指定过程，以及战后几十年与公共访问，林业和基础设施发展有关的冲突。自1970年代以来，很少有人注意到公园管理局运作的环境的变化。这个博士将研究最近的国家公园的历史背景下，看到诺森伯兰郡国家公园管理局收购，翻新，并使公众能够进入Thirlwell城堡在20世纪90年代末和21世纪初的多方面的过程。

Histories of Britain's National Parks have focused predominately on the political process that led to the passage of the 1949 National Parks Act, the consequent designation process, and the conflicts related to public access, forestry and infrastructural development in the immediate post-war decades. Little attention has been paid to the transformation of the context in which the park authorities have operated since the 1970s. This PhD will examine recent National Park history by contextualizing the multi-faceted process that saw Northumberland National Park Authority acquire, renovate and enable public access to Thirlwell Castle in the late 1990s and early 2000s.