'For Everyone, for Ever'? The National Trust and the Construction of Englishness, c.1945-2000

2020年是对国家历史及其在建筑环境中的反映进行大规模清算的一年。国民信托基金关于其财产殖民关系的中期报告遭到了强烈反对，包括否认帝国遗产，以及表达英国和/或英国对帝国的民族自豪感(福勒2020)。在这种情况下，迫切需要重新审视国家信托基金，将其作为国家特性形成和争辩的关键场所。使用书面和口头相结合的资料，这个项目将探索信托基金自己对这个国家的想象，以及它与英国人的联系的普遍看法。

2020 was a year of mass reckoning with the national past and its reflections in the built environment. The backlash against the National Trust's 'Interim Report' on its properties' colonial ties ranged between denial of the imperial legacy, and expressions of English and/or British national pride in the empire (Fowler 2020). These circumstances present an urgent need to revisit the National Trust as a key site for the formation and contestation of national identities. Using a combination of written and oral sources, this project will explore the Trust's own imagining of the nation, and popular perceptions of its connection to 'Englishness'.