Buscot Park

Vale of White Horse

Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden. It remained in the family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian. Campbell's daughter Florence would later be famous as Mrs Charles Bravo, the central character in a Victorian murder case that remains unsolved to this day. On Campbell's death, in 1887, the house and its estate were sold to Alexander Henderson a financier, later to be ennobled as Baron Faringdon. Following the death of the 1st Baron in 1934, the house was considerably altered and restored to its 18th-century form, by the architect Geddes Hyslop, for his grandson and successor, Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon, during this era, the art collection founded by the 1st Baron was considerably enlarged, although many of the 1st Baron's 19th-century works of art were sold immediately following his death. The house and estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1956. The contents are owned by the Faringdon Collection Trust. The house is occupied and managed by the present Lord Faringdon. The mansion and its extensive formal and informal gardens and grounds are open to the public each summer.

Florence Nightingale Museum

London

The Florence Nightingale Museum is located at St Thomas' Hospital, which faces the Palace of Westminster across the River Thames in South Bank, central London, England. It is open to the public seven days a week. It reopened on 12 May 2010 following an extensive £1.4m refurbishment.The museum tells the real story of Florence Nightingale, "the lady with the lamp", from her Victorian childhood to her experiences in the Crimean, through to her years as an ardent campaigner for health reform. Nightingale is recognised as the founder of modern nursing in the United Kingdom. The new museum explains her legacy and also celebrates nursing today: it is a member of The London Museums of Health & Medicine group. In 1860, four years after her famous involvement in the Crimean War, Nightingale founded the Nightingale Training School for nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital and the museum is located on this site.The new museum is designed around three pavilions that tell her story. The Gilded Cage tells the story of Nightingale's privileged childhood and her struggle against stifling social conventions. The Calling shows how Nightingale and her team coped with the crisis in the military hospitals where the legend of the lady with the lamp was born. Reform and Inspire shows the other side of Nightingale, the reformer who campaigned tirelessly for health reform at home and abroad. Highlights from the Collection include the writing slate Nightingale used as a child, her pet owl Athena , and Nightingale's medicine chest, which she took with her to the Crimean. It contains a mix of medicines and herbal remedies, from bicarbonate of soda to powdered rhubarb. The museum displays a rare Register of Nurses that lists women who served under Nightingale in the military hospitals in Turkey and the Crimean. Audio tours are free with entry and accessed via a set of stethoscopes. Interactive exhibits have been created to offer different ways of exploring Florence's story and influence. Free creative activities for children are offered during the holidays. There is also a resource centre which is open by appointment to students, academics and other researchers, who may use the museum's collections, books and documents related to Florence Nightingale. The museum is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine.

Forestry Commission

Edinburgh

Bei der 1919 gegründeten Forestry Commission handelt es sich um ein nicht-ministrielles Regierungsdepartment in Großbritannien. Sie ist die zuständige Behörde für die Forstwirtschaft und hat die Aufgabe, den Wald zu schützen, zu erweitern und seinen Wert für die Gesellschaft und die Umwelt zu steigern.

Fulham Library

London

Fulham Library is a Grade II listed building at 598 Fulham Road, Fulham, London. It was built in 1908, and the architect was Henry Hare.Among the staff was Edward Dudley, winner of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals first Cilip medal, who worked there as a librarian from 1936 to 1939.

Gawthorpe Hall

Burnley

Gawthorpe Hall ist ein Landhaus an den Ufern des River Calder in der Pfarre Ightenhill im Borough of Burnley der englischen Grafschaft Lancashire. Das Anwesen des elisabethanischen Hauses erstreckt sich bis in den Bezirk der Kleinstadt Padiham, in dem der Eingang vom Stockbridge Drive aus liegt. Seit 1953 ist das Haus als historisches Bauwerk I. Grades gelistet. Das Landhaus wird vom National Trust in Zusammenarbeit mit der Grafschaftsverwaltung von Lancashire betrieben und finanziert. Im Jahre 2015 erhielt das Landhaus einen Zuschuss in Höhe von £ 500.000 von der Grafschaftsverwaltung Lancashire für dringend benötigte Renovierungsmaßnahmen an der Süd- und Westfassade.

Graves Art Gallery

Sheffield

Graves Art Gallery is an art gallery in Sheffield, England. The gallery is located above the Central Library in Sheffield city centre. It houses permanent displays from the city’s historic and contemporary collection of British and European art along with a programme of temporary exhibitions. The collection encapsulates the story of the development of art. The main trends and movements are traced through works by many artists, from JMW Turner, Alfred Sisley and Sir Stanley Spencer, to Helen Chadwick, Marc Quinn and Bridget Riley. The gallery is managed by Museums Sheffield.

Great North Museum: Hancock

Newcastle upon Tyne

The Great North Museum: Hancock is a museum of natural history and ancient civilisations in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The museum was established in 1884 and was formerly known as the Hancock Museum. In 2006 it merged with Newcastle University's Hatton Gallery to form the Great North Museum. The museum reopened as the Great North Museum: Hancock in May 2009 following a major extension and refurbishment of the original Victorian building. The museum and most of its collections are owned by the Natural History Society of Northumbria, and it is managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums on behalf of Newcastle University.

Greys Court

Oxford

Greys Court ist ein Landhaus im Dorf Rotherfield Greys am Südende der Chiltern Hills bei Henley-on-Thames in der englischen Grafschaft Oxfordshire. Das Haus im Tudorstil, das inmitten von Gärten liegt, gehört dem National Trust und ist öffentlich zugänglich.

Griffith Institute

Oxford

Das Griffith Institute ist eine auf dem Ashmolean Museum fußende Einrichtung, die der Universität von Oxford im Bereiche der Ägyptologie angehört. Das Institut ist nach dem Ägyptologen Francis Llewellyn Griffith benannt worden, der Spenden in die Einrichtung fließen ließ. Das Griffith Institute wurde am 21. Januar 1939 eröffnet und verfügte schon damals über eine eigenständige Verwaltung. Das Institut umfasst ein wichtiges und einzigartiges Archiv für Ägyptologie. Es werden Kopien von Inschriften, Zeichnungen und Wasserzeichnungen, alten Negativen, Fotografien und Druckwerken aufbewahrt. Außerdem verfügt die Einrichtung über Texte von Alan H. Gardiner und Jaroslav Černý und Aufnahmen Howard Carters im Rahmen von dessen Ausgrabungen 1922. Auch die Aufzeichnungen der Nubienexpedition von Sir Henry Wellcome lagern in diesen Archiven. Das Griffith Institute veröffentlicht in regelmäßigen Abständen die Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings und zeichnet auch verantwortlich für wichtige Publikationen wie etwa die Egyptian Grammar von Gardiner und Faulkners A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Darüber hinaus verwaltet die Einrichtung die A. H. Gardiner Travel Scholarship in Egyptology, die sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, die Freundschaft zwischen britischen Ägyptologen und dem Staat Ägypten zu verbessern.