by Caroline Davison | Sep 8, 2020 | Blogs, events, News
Heritage Open Days is England’s largest festival of history and culture, bringing together over 2,000 organisations, 5,500 events and 46,000 volunteers. This year’s festival, which starts on September 11, will be a bit different, due to Covid-19. As the...
by Caroline Davison | Jul 31, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
A phenomenon of the COVID-19 crisis has been a nation-wide increase in visits to outdoor spaces. This is reflected in the high numbers of people visiting national parks, city parks and beaches as seen on the news. We have also seen increases in visitors to NAT sites,...
by Caroline Davison | Jul 1, 2020 | Blogs, News
This month Natalie Butler, NAT’s new volunteer co-ordinator, looks at St Benet’s Abbey from an unusual angle: ‘One of the pleasures of my new job is reacquainting myself with some of Norfolk’s most significant archaeological sites. Last week I visited St...
by Caroline Davison | Jun 1, 2020 | Blogs, News
Over the past two years the Burgh Castle Almanac project, led by the Restoration Trust, has been supporting people who experience mental illness through a creative approach to exploring the history and landscapes of the Roman Fort. Before the coronavirus outbreak this...
by Caroline Davison | May 1, 2020 | Blogs, News
We’re pleased to announce that we have appointed a new Volunteer Co-ordinator, Natalie Butler, who will be working 2.5 days a week for NAT. Although not very much volunteer activity is possible at the moment she will spend the next few weeks getting to know NAT’s...
by Caroline Davison | Apr 1, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I thought this month a poem might be the best solution to the problem of what to write in these difficult and disrupted times. Here’s a poem by Thomas Hardy that touches on the ancient and the personal, through a memory of the Roman road of his childhood...
