The National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF), which was set up by the Act, has no fixed remit. It has made grants for the preservation of everything from endangered species to old movies. Nevertheless, the country house has remained central to this expanded conception of heritage. The NHMF enabled the National Trust to acquire a number of major country houses during the 1980s, notably Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire (Plate 128), which it would otherwise never have been able to take on (the Trust has strict financial requirements for the endowment of the properties it accepts). Large sums of money were involved: it cost £13.5 million to secure the future of Kedleston alone. During the same period, the Trust also saw its membership grow from under a million to its present levels. This combination of public funding and popular support for heritage in general and the country house in particular (further reinforced by the lavish 1981 television dramatization of Evelyn Waugh's elegaic country house novel, Brideshead Revisited, first published in elegaic 1945) provides the backdrop for the critique of the whole phenomenon that crystallized in the later 1980s.