{"id":5227,"date":"2011-12-28T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2011-12-28T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:36:29","slug":"more-than-700000-national-trust-items-go-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/2011\/12\/more-than-700000-national-trust-items-go-online\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 700,000 National Trust items go online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From great works of art by Gainsborough to the ordinary cotton underpants of a Midlands grocer, details of over 700,000 objects in the care of the <a title=\"National Trust objects go online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">National Trust go online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_5232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5232\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Laudanum-bottle-at-Castle-Ward-835798.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5232\" title=\" Laudanum bottle at Castle Ward, County Down [ID 835798]. 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Pic NT<\/figcaption><\/figure>Anyone with an interest in historic objects or old curiosities now have virtual access to collections from over 200 historic properties.<\/p>\n<p>The website includes details of collections in storage, items that are too fragile to display, or on loan to other museums, making it one of the largest online resources for historic collections in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The National Trust cares for some of the UK\u2019s greatest works of art as well as the personal collections of many famous former owners such as Winston Churchill, Agatha Christie, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter and George Bernard Shaw.<\/p>\n<p>There are artistic treasures from stately houses but also thousands of everyday items from modest homes, mills, cottages and workplaces. All the paraphernalia of life \u2013 with many quirky, unusual, retro and bizarre objects \u2013 come together to form \u2018time capsules\u2019 of life across the centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the fascinating objects now viewable online are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laudanum bottle at Castle Ward<\/li>\n<li>Costume decorated with beetle wings for actress Ellen Terry at Smallhythe Place<\/li>\n<li>Sewing machine used at the tailor\u2019s shop from the 1970s at the Back to Backs<\/li>\n<li>Brueghel the Younger\u2019s masterpiece &#8216;The Procession to Calvary&#8217; at Nostell Priory<\/li>\n<li>Early anti-ageing \u2018Rejuvenating\u2019 machine at Overbeck\u2019s<\/li>\n<li>Lavishly furnished Georgian dolls\u2019 house at Uppark<\/li>\n<li>Photograph from 1912 of the family\u2019s servants at Erddig<\/li>\n<li>Bible reputed to have been used at the execution of King Charles I at Chastleton House<\/li>\n<li>Pair of Aertex underpants at Mr Straw\u2019s House<\/li>\n<li>French 18th century painted sedan chair at Snowshill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The National Trust Collections website is drawn from the Trust\u2019s national inventory &#8211; it has taken nearly fifteen years and the work of hundreds of Trust staff, volunteers and contractors to research, catalogue and photograph the collections and develop the database \u2013 and work is on-going.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Staniforth, National Trust Museums and Collections Director, said: &#8220;This is such an exciting moment and yet another step forward in bringing our places to life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are now able to share our collections with everyone online \u2013- and offer a fantastic resource for learning more about them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5231\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/National-Trust-Collections-online-homepage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5231\" title=\"National Trust Collections online homepage - 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Pic NT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Philip Claris, National Trust Head of Collections Management, said: &#8220;This has been an incredible project for everyone involved but whilst the majority of the Trust&#8217;s collections are now online, work is on-going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For instance we are still adding books from the many thousands in our libraries, items from more recently-acquired properties and objects on loan to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople will be able to see changes to the website daily as more is added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We estimate that by the time it has all been included we will have around one million objects online.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From great works of art by Gainsborough to the ordinary cotton underpants of a Midlands grocer, details of over 700,000 objects in the care of the National Trust go online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":5233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[427,2571],"tags":[11504,11513,46,11511,11509,11508,11506,11515,11503,11517,11516,11502,7219,11522,3050,11514,11512,11505,11520,11510,11507,3147],"class_list":["post-5227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-social-history","tag-agatha-christie","tag-artistic-treasures","tag-beatrix-potter","tag-bernard-shaw","tag-bizarre-objects","tag-castle-ward","tag-chastleton","tag-ellen-terry","tag-george-bernard-shaw","tag-laudanum","tag-national-inventory","tag-nostell-priory","tag-personal-collections","tag-research-catalogue","tag-rudyard-kipling","tag-sedan-chair","tag-sewing-machine","tag-smallhythe-place","tag-staff-volunteers","tag-stately-houses","tag-uppark","tag-winston-churchill","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/lavishly-furnished-dolls-house-138073-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/lavishly-furnished-dolls-house-138073-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5236,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions\/5236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heritageandhistory.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}