Emma Slocombe Author

Emma Slocombe is the National Trust’s Senior National Curator for Dress and Textiles and has been a curator at the National Trust since 2006. Her principal interests lie in early modern textiles, furnished interiors, and histories of textile recycling and repurposing – subjects on which she has published widely.

Helen Antrobus is an Assistant National Curator at the National Trust. Her research interests include 20th-century women, social and political landscapes, and histories of dress. In 2022 she co-curated Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2018 she curated Represent! Voices 100 Years On at the People’s History Museum, Manchester. Her first book, First in the Fight: 20 Women Who Made Manchester, was published in 2019.