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Article: History in costly fairy-tale garb The National Trust should stop being so smug and extravagant, argues Paula Weid eger

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January 12, 1995
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The National Trust is 100 years old today. Let me join in the happy birthday chorus - it is one of England's most remarkable 20th- century success stories - but let me not stop there. Although the people managing the National Trust and their passi onate defenders refuse to believe it, it is possible to be both a fan of its outstandingly beautiful properties and a critic of the way it's run.

For the first two-thirds of its history, the National Trust was a decisive, campaigning body with a clear, if changing, purpose. It was brought into being near the end of the 19th century by a trio of socialist do-gooders who wanted to save beautiful countryside from development in order that poor city ...

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