Shout-out to all our rangers on #WorldRangerDay! We couldn't do nature research without our expert ranger teams. They know landscapes and habitats better than anyone else, and work every day to find the best ways of caring for them. Thanks, @nationaltrust.org.uk rangers, you're the best.

An excellent day yesterday with @nattrustarch.bsky.social's David Thomas & the Early Mines Research Group at NT Dolaucothi Roman mines, Pumsaint ⛏️😮 Great to walk through Roman adit up to an ancient opencast where the excavations have revealed fire setting & an anvil stone 👌 📷 My own

Have you sent in your question for #AskAnArchaeologist Day yet?

National Trust Archaeology@nattrustarch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hi I’m Nick NT Archaeologist for Stonehenge & Avebury WHS & a bunch of other sites in wonderful Wiltshire. Here to answer your questions for #AskAnArchaeologist Day @archaeologyuk.bsky.social

This #HampshireDay we are celebrating the ongoing archaeological research at Hinton Ampner as part of larger nature recovery ambitions within the @nationaltrust.org.uk. 🧵

WE HAVE AVOCET NEWS!!! An Avocet spotted at RSPB Middleton Lakes has been confirmed as the oldest ever recorded in the UK. At 36 years old, it's lived more than five times longer than the species' average lifespan. First ringed in 1990, it's still out there doing Avocet things. Go on Avocet. 😍

🥳The National Trust's fourth Annual Research Report is here! Learn all about how our research is helping us Restore Nature, End Unequal Access, and Inspire Millions. You can download the report from our Research Repository ⬇️ nt.iro.bl.uk/concern/repo...

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📢One week left to apply to join our team as Postdoctoral Research Fellow! We're looking for a fantastic researcher to join our Nature Towns and Cities team and work in partnership with the @exeter.ac.uk @netpositivecentre.bsky.social. Find out more ⬇️ careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/?_...

#academia #postdoc job alert! 📢 We're looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join our Nature Towns and Cities team and work in partnership with the @exeter.ac.uk @netpositivecentre.bsky.social. Fixed term for at least 2 years, £36,621 pa. ⬇️ careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/?_...

NT archaeologist Mark Newman and a team from the University of Bradford have been searching for clues about Inner Farne’s most famous and important inhabitant, St Cuthbert. You can find out more in Episode 3 of Hidden Treasures of the National Trust tonight on BBC Two at 9pm, or on BBC IPlayer.

Then, it was a mighty tree, a food, a medicine, a nation's cultural symbol. Now, it's a staircase in an English stately home. Researcher Elena of @bristoluni.bsky.social has written the fascinating life story of Dyrham's black walnut trees. plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/04/29/f...

Congratulations ! You have reached the Woodpigeon of encouragement. Great job! Keep going! 📷️ @carlbovisnature.bsky.social

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

National Trust Research@researchnt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢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...

#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.

National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 3mo ago

For generations, the identity of the boy known as "Jersey" in Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait at Saltram remained unknown. But new technical analysis and research in collaboration with the National Gallery London and Royal Museums Greenwich has uncovered his name and life story: buff.ly/5PStzUn

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

National Trust Research@researchnt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✨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...

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_...

Pied Flycatcher & Blue Tit – Nestbox neighbours LIVE from National Trust Longshaw Estate

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✨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...

Doctoral fellowships at the National Trust

Find out more about the doctoral fellowships available through the partnership between the National Trust and the British Library.

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📢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 ⬇️

Molly Groarke@mollygroarke.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pleased to see my blog post published by Cambridge's Legacies of Enslavement Network - it reflects on researching imperial legacies at country houses and how histories of antislavery present both a challenge and opportunity for the heritage sector: www.legaciesofenslavement.cam.ac.uk/news/antisla...

📢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 🌤️

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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...

'Extraordinary discovery' made in old National Trust painting

Using new technology, secrets from the past have been revealed in an old painting.

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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 🦜

Emily Stevenson@emilylsteve.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A very fun day yesterday on Knotted Histories, taking samples from the carpet in the King's room at Knole and uncovering the hidden parrots underneath @researchnt.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