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Dr Rachel Conroy

Member of Common Room

Senior National Curator: North and Decorative Arts, National Trust

Humanities Division, Kellogg College

PhD, MA, BA (Hons) (Manchester)

Dr Rachel Conroy joined the National Trust in 2019 and loves telling stories through objects. She has worked as a curator for 20 years, specializing in British ceramics, decorative art and contemporary craft. She has published widely and is joint author of Welsh Pottery and Porcelain 1764-1922 (Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, 2022) and lead author of Women Artists and Designers at the National Trust (forthcoming 2025). Recent projects include The Botanical World of Mary Delany, a British Museum international touring exhibition at Beningbrough (2024), the V&A/NT exhibition partnership, Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature (2022) and Everywhere and Nowhere, a research partnership with the University of Leicester looking at histories of disability at the NT (2023). She is currently developing research on the NT’s remarkable collections of amateur creativity.