ナショナル・トラスト

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ナショナル・トラスト とは、歴史的建築物の保護を目的として英国において設立されたボランティア団体。正式名称は歴史的名所や自然的景勝地のためのナショナル・トラスト 。 ナショナル・トラストは設立の目的として「国民の利益のために、美しく、あるいは歴史的に意味のある土地や資産を永久に保存するよう促すこと、土地については、実行可能な限り、その土地本来の要素や特徴、動植物の生態を保存すること、そしてこの目的のために、資産の所有者から歴史的建造物や景勝地の寄贈を受け、獲得した土地や建物などの資産を国民の利用と楽しみのために信託財産として保持すること」を定めており、単なる環境保護ではなく、歴史的建造物や景勝地を国民の遺産として保持することで、愛国心や国民の一体感といったナショナル・アイデンティティを形成・強化することを意義としている。 本組織による保護活動が著名となったことから、同様の趣旨を持って活動する運動、あるいは理念そのものを「ナショナル・トラスト」と呼ぶこともある。同団体は2015年現在、424万人の会員と6万人超のボランティアが支える英国最大の自然保護団体となっている。

Charleston Farmhouse

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Charleston, in East Sussex, is a property associated with the Bloomsbury group, that is open to the public. It was the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and is an example of their decorative style within a domestic context, representing the fruition of more than sixty years of artistic creativity. In addition to the house and artists' garden, Charleston hosts a year-round programme of Bloomsbury and contemporary exhibitions in a suite of galleries designed by Jamie Fobert Architects which opened in September 2018. Two restored barns are home to The Threshing Barn café and The Hay Barn where events and workshops are held throughout the year. The outer studio at Charleston hosts a permanent display of Bell and Grant's Famous Women Dinner Service, and there is also a shop selling Bloomsbury-inspired art, homeware fabrics, fashion, books and stationery. Charleston hosts a number of special events throughout the year, most notably the Charleston Festival, which each May invites artists, writers, thinkers and changemakers to discuss the best in art, literature, ideas and politics, past and present, just as the Bloomsbury group did around the Charleston dining table. The house is located in the village of Firle, in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England.

Lewes Castle

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Lewes Castle is a medieval castle in the town of Lewes in East Sussex, England. Originally called Bray Castle, it occupies a commanding position guarding the gap in the South Downs cut by the River Ouse and occupied by the towns of Lewes and Cliffe. It stands on a man-made mount just to the north of the high street in Lewes, and is constructed from local limestone and flint blocks.

Monk's House

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Monk's House is a 16th-century weatherboarded cottage in the village of Rodmell, three miles south of Lewes, East Sussex, England. The writer Virginia Woolf and her husband, the political activist, journalist and editor Leonard Woolf, bought the house by auction at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, on 1 July 1919 for 700 pounds, and received there many visitors connected to the Bloomsbury Group, including T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry and Lytton Strachey. The purchase is described in detail in her Diary, vol. 1, pp. 286–8. Virginia's sister, the artist Vanessa Bell, lived at nearby Charleston Farmhouse in Firle from 1916, and though contrasting in style, both houses became important outposts of the Bloomsbury Group. The National Trust now operates the building as a writer's house museum.