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，以及战后几十年里与公众进入、林业和基础设施发展有关的冲突。自20世纪70年代以来，很少有人关注公园管理部门运作环境的转变。本博士将通过将诺森伯兰郡国家公园管理局在20世纪90年代末和21世纪初收购、翻新并使公众进入瑟尔韦尔城堡的多方面过程置于背景下，研究国家公园最近的历史。

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.