https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8762205/DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-dare-National-Trust-link-Wordsworth-slavery.html
Keep the NT but abolish the finger-wagging rubbish. I offer a list below for you to print out and keep, either to tick off your visits or as a hit list for arson, vandalism etc.
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I-SPY
GUIDE TO NATIONAL TRUST COLONIALIST CR*P
Remember that Great Britain
abolished slavery in 1838 and then fought against it across the globe
NT’s List of Shame:
https://nt.global.ssl.fastly.net/documents/colionialism-and-historic-slavery-report.pdf
Visit checklist (“Gotta
Catch ‘Em All!”):
East of England:
Anglesey
Abbey
Blicking
Hall
Felbrigg
Hall
Hatfield
Forest Shell House
Ickworth
Oxburgh
Hall
Peckover
House
Wimpole
Hall
London and the South East:
Ankerwycke
Ashdown
House
Basildon
Park
Bateman’s
Bodiam
Castle
Carlyle’s
House
Chartwell
Clandon
Park
Claremont
Cliveden
Greys
Court
Ham
House
Hatchlands
Park
Hinton
Ampner
Hughenden
Manor
Knole
Leith
Hill Tower and Countryside
Morden
Hall Park
Osterley
Park and House
Owletts
Petworth
Polesden
Lacey
Sheffield
Park and Garden
Stowe
Sutton
House
West
Wycombe Park
Midlands:
Belton
House
Berrington
Hall
Calke
Abbey
Charlecote
Park
Coughton
Court
Croft
Castle
Croome
Court
Dudmaston
Hardwick
Hall
Kedleston
Hall
Lyveden
Shugborough
Sudbury
Hall
Tattershall
Castle
Northern Ireland:
Mount
Stewart
North of England:
Allan
Bank
Cragside
Dunham
Massey
Fountains
Abbey
Studley
Royal
Hare
Hill
Nostell
Nunnington
Hall
Quarry
Bank Mill
Rufford
Old Hall
Seaton
Delaval Hall
Speke
Hall
Wallington
Hall
Washington
Old Hall
Wentworth
Castle Gardens
South West:
Barrington
Court
Bath
Assembly Rooms
Buckland
Abbey
Castle
Drogo
Clevedon
Court
Compton
Castle
Greenway
Cotehele
Dyrham
Park
Glastonbury
Tor
Godolphin
Kingston
Lacy
Corfe
Castle
Lacock
Abbey
Lanhydrock
Lundy
Newark
Park
Saltram
Sherborne
Park Estate
Shute
Barton
Snowshill
Manor
Stourhead
Trengwainton
Garden
Tyntesfield
3 comments:
Ah the woke NT, this is part of their declaration.....
'Some of this is difficult stuff,' Tarnya Cooper, who has been involved in linking the properties' pasts, told the Times.
'Some of the objects are really distressing because they come from a time when slavery was very much a part of this country and we're such a different society now.'
Difficult! only for you, this was indeed a long time ago, perhaps we should start removing Roman artifacts here for the same reason, Hello Bath............
Is it a competition with these people to see who can come up with the most stupid suggestion.
Let's tackle real present-day injustices. This is displacement activity.
As I say on a Conservative Woman post about this
(https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/national-trusts-oh-so-selective-history-of-slavery/#comment-5084473872):
'My objections to this NT venture are twofold:
1. It helps fuel a diffuse sense of grievance that forges 'mind-manacles' for the minorities that should be helped to escape. I remember (from c. 1977) the horror of a secondary age girl when, after she had finished - with pleasure on her face - rehearsing a familar peroration on slavery, I told her of the active involvement of West African chiefs in the business. You can get frozen into victimhood.
2. It is a safe displacement activity for depressive liberals who want the guilt trip without having to do anything much (a bit like watching a three-hanky-box weepie at the cinema), and distracts from real issues that should be tackled today.
One of the latter is the disgracefully low standard of service from the legal system to some poor defendants, as in the case (in the USA) of Albert and Ashley Debelbot, given life sentences for the death of their newborn baby after what seems negligent defence and a completely outrageous definition of reasonable doubt by the prosecuting attorney; and then a rotten first appeal hearing. It may not be entirely irrelevant that the defendants are 'persons of colour' and were tried in Georgia. I give details and links here: https://polynesiantimes.blo...
Then there is the question of whether we are offering the right kind of education to everyone - should they all be made to have the same?; whether disadvantaged groups should have more access to capital to start businesses; and so on.'
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