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21st

  • Acquiring Gainsborough's portrait of the marquis de Champcenetz

    Behind the scenes of a thrilling 2016 auction
  • Barbara Fermor

    Volunteer, started Knole's Tudor character costume collection
  • Barbara Taylor

    Learning Officer
  • Christine Sitwell

    Adviser, National Trust, Painting Conservation
  • David Cattell

    Project Architect, Inspired by Knole Project, 2013-2019
  • Emma Slocombe

    Inspired by Knole Project Curator, 2007-2017
  • Emma Slocombe on curatorial research and re-presenting Knole

    Inspired by Knole, Project Curator 2007-2017
  • Eve Tucker, Knole volunteer since 1987

    Sevenoaks resident and wartime reporter for the Sevenoaks Chronicle
  • Gerry Alabone and Mark Searle, frames conservators in 2016

    Frames conservators, Inspired by Knole project (2013-2019)
  • Graeme Gardiner's work on Knole's 17th century pedigree rolls

    Conservator of the Sackville pedigree rolls and ennoblement documents
  • Hannah Kay

    General Manager, Knole, from 2015
  • Helen Fawbert

    House and Collections Manager, Knole, 2006-2018
  • Hugh Sackville-West (1919 -2001)

    Lord Sackville's father was Agent and Administrator of Knole, for Knole Estates and the National Trust
  • Ian Tyers

    Dendrochronologist
  • Introducing this website

    updated March 2026
  • James Finlay

    Adviser, National Trust, Historic Interior Decoration
  • James P Wright

    Buildings Archaeologist and mediaeval specialist, on ritual protection marks at Knole
  • Jan Cutajar

    Conservator, Knole kussenkast and 17th century letters
  • Jonathan Sargant

    Forging links with the wider community
  • Knole volunteers who found the Message-in-a-Bottle

    Brenda Jarvis and Jim Parker relive their exciting discovery
  • Marcia Barton

    Knole volunteer (1987-2019)
  • Martha Infray

    Project Conservator, 2015-2018
  • Matthew Champion

    Archaeologist, medieval graffiti expert
  • Maurice Howard remembers visiting NT houses from the 1950s

    Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Sussex, and eminent architectural historian, remembers 60 years of visiting Knole
  • Maurice Howard, OBE, supervised two key PhD theses on Knole

    Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Sussex; architectural historian
  • Meet the team

    National Trust volunteers at Knole, in Sevenoaks, Kent, interview, record and transcribe conversations with people who have been connected to Knole Estate staff since the late 19th century as well as those who have worked at Knole (NT) or visited the parkland.
  • Melanie Caldwell on conserving Reynolds's paintings

    Paintings conservator, with more than three decades' experience working on the Knole collection
  • Michael Doggett

    Heating and plumbing designer at Knole for 40 years
  • Nathalie Cohen

    Archaeologist, Knole; National Trust, London and South East
  • Nathalie Cohen

    Award-winning Archaeologist, Inspired by Knole project
  • Richard Hill

    Senior Project Manager, Inspired by Knole Project
  • Robert Sackville-West

    Lord Sackville, speaking about the Inspired by Knole Project (2013-2019)
  • Robin Mills

    Senior Building Surveyor, National Trust 1988 - 2019; Knole volunteer 2019 to present
  • Sarah Maisey conserving a Reynolds portrait

    Senior Remedial Paintings Conservator, Royal Oak Foundation Conservation Studio at Knole, Kent
  • Siobhan Barratt

    Knole's former Project Conservator, then Knole Conservation Studio Manager, 2015-2017
  • Sophie Reddington on conserving Knole's largest landscape painting

    Paintings conservator, speaking about her treatment of one of Knole's largest landscape paintings
  • The History of Knole tapestry

    Interviews with the Textile Group Sevenoaks
  • Tim Martin

    Metalwork conservator
  • Tobit Curteis, conservator, historic wall paintings

    Advisor on Wall Paintings for the National Trust
  • Victoria Phillips

    Fund-raising Manager, Inspired by Knole Project, 2013-2019
  • Yannick Chastang

    Specialist conservator, Boulle furniture
  • Zenzie Tinker

    Textile conservator
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