Kedleston Hall is a Georgian jewel a few miles north of Derby built to rival Chatsworth. Its 18th-century Palladian facade and neoclassical architecture and parkland are just as impressive and it is one of the National Trust’s most popular visitor sites.
It was always the wish of its former owner Lord Curzon, a Viceroy of India and a nearly Prime Minister, that his childhood home, more a palace to showcase his exquisite collection of paintings, artefacts and furniture, should be opened up to the public.
And it was duly handed over by his heirs in 1987, 62 years after his death in 1925. By some distance he has been the most generous of benefactors to the National Trust two of his other historic properties, Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire and Bodiam, in East Sussex, were bequeathed to the nation, along with provision for their maintenance. He also restored the Elizabethan mansion Montacute in Somerset, which the Trust also took over.
Marco Longhi (Dudley North) asked the Government to review allocations by the Culture Recovery Fund
Cultural projects run by people who hate our history and seek to rewrite it should be barred from receiving taxpayers support, a Tory MP said today.
Marco Longhi, MP for Dudley North, asked the Government to review allocations by the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, which will give money to heritage groups, museums and other venues to help them recover from coronavirus.
Mr Longhi told MailOnline he was concerned about recent attempts to re-evaluate history - such as the National Maritime Museum s bid to challenge Lord Horatio Nelson s hero status and the National Trust s colonial countryside project.
The project was carried out by University of Leicester with National Trust funds
It received a grant of £99,600 from the National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund through the National Trust and a further £60,000 from the Arts Council
The project linked almost 100 National Trust properties to British colonialism
A group of Tory MPs have written to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden for an explanation to why the project was given the funds
Colonial Countryside projects looks into links of 11 trust properties to slave trade Child advisory boards set up to assist the trust s staff with their training so they can explain the ties of their properties to slave trade and British empire
The project involves nine historians working with 100 primary school children
Last month, the trust was accused of bias over the team of historians it hired
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