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Emma Slocombe

Emma Slocombe is a National Trust curator based in Kent and East Sussex. Her property portfolio includes Knole, Sissinghurst, Scotney Castle and Smallhythe Place. She is currently on secondment as lead consultant and curator on 'Inspired by Knole', a £17.5 million conservation and interpretation project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund to secure the future of the building and collections at Knole. She has a special interest in costume and textiles and her current research is focused on the collection of 17th century royal state furniture at Knole and the history of its presentation. Recent completed projects include a five year project to open the New House at Scotney Castle to the public, 'Dress in the Limelight', a reinterpretation of Ellen Terry's beetle-wing dress at Smallhythe Place and the conservation of the James II Bed at Knole. She has published 'Lady Macbeth at the Lyceum' (National Trust Historic Houses and Collections Annual in association with Apollo, 2011) and 'John Piper at Scotney Castle' (John Piper in Kent and East Sussex, ed. Nathaniel Hepburn, 2011).