Credentials

Media Research Projects

Since Sticks Research Agency was established (date?), Dr Nick Barratt and his researchers have made many contributions to programming, radio, books, articles and online sources. Please see below for a list of Stick's research projects to date.

Television

• Who Do You Think You Are? - Wall to Wall for BBC2 <more>
  Sticks provided specialist researchers and Dr Nick Barratt presented the accompanying BBCi strand as well as providing expert advice at the end of each BBC2 programme
• The History Channel - Resident genealogist
• Space Race - BBC Science
• Britain's Best Buildings (2nd series) - BBC Arts
• History Trails - October Films for UKTV History
• Ancestors - BBC2
  Genealogical research for episodes on Darwin's Beagle and Wilfred Owen's 1st World War service
• Breaking the Seal - BBC1 in conjunction with Open University
• Britain's Best Buildings (1st series) -
  BBC2 Archive research on the hidden history of famous landmarks
• Coliseum - BBC2
  Development research and original document research
• House Detectives - BBC 2
  Specialist archive research and on screen appearances by Dr Nick Barratt
• House Detectives Go Large - BBC2
  Specialist archive research
• Invasion - BBC2
  Archive research and historical advice
• Omnibus - BBC2
  Contribution of archive research to various programmes
• One Foot in the Past - BBC2
  Contribution of archive research to various programmes
  
• People Detectives - RDF Media for BBC2 Contribution of archive research at on screen appearance
• Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
  Archive research to provide contemporary dialogue for the scriptwriters
• Terry Jones' Medieval Tales - Oxford Film & TV for BBC2
  Archive research and document identification at The National Archives
• Victorian Death - BBC2
  Archive research
• Victorian Sex - BBC2
  Archive research
• Wreck Detectives (1st & 2nd series) - RDF Media for Channel 4. Historical research on shipwrecks
• You Don't Know You're Born - ITV1

Radio research & appearances by
Dr Nick Barratt

• Big Toe Radio Show - Radio 7
  Regular guest Historian
• Go For It - Radio 4
  Contributor discussing family history
• Today Programme - Radio 4
  Contributor in programme on family history for Who Do You Think You Are? as well as a feature on the loss of Normandy 1204
• Series of local radio interviews to promote Who Do You Think You Are?
• Series of local radio interviews to promote The History Channel's Family History Project

Online contributions

• The Family History Project - The History Channel Online.
  Wrote and structured web copy and specialist articles
• Who Do You Think You Are? - BBC Website
  Wrote and structured web copy and specialist articles
• Invasion & House Detectives - BBCi
  Contributed web copy feature articles for both series
  History Trails - BBCi
  Researched and wrote five galleries for two History Trails including family history
• Invasion - BBC
  Contributed to live webcast after broadcast of final episode
• Learning Curve - The National Archives
  Development of online content

Articles for newspapers, magazines, journals and tie-in booklets

• BBC Publications
  Commissioned to write several TV tie-in booklets for BBC on family history
• The Family History Project - The History Channel Commissioned to write general and chapter introductions for book to accompany The Family History Project
• Invasion - BBC Publications
  Contributed research to Dan Cruickshank publication
• Tracing the History of Your House - (Past Times / TNA Publications)
• Feature articles on House History for The Times, Radio Times, House Beautiful, BBC Homes and Antiques
• Newspapers
  Numerous articles in daily, weekend, national and local press
• Public Records Office - Ancestors (Journal)
  Regular contributor

Publications - Academic

• Monograph
  Receipt Rolls for the 4th, 5th and 6th years of the reign of King Henry III (Pipe Roll Society, 2003)
• Articles
  'The Revenue of King John, English Historical Review, CXI (1996)
  
  'The Revenues of John and Philip Augustus Revisited', in King John: New Interpretations, ed. S Church (Woodbridge, 1999)
  
  'English Royal Revenue in the Early Thirteenth Century and its Wider Context, 1130-1330', in Crises, Revolutions and Self-Sustained Growth: Essays in European Fiscal History, 1130-1830, eds. R. Bonney, M. Bonney and W.M. Ormrod (Shaun Tyas, 2000)
  
  'The English Revenue of Richard I', English Historical Review, CXVI (2001)
  
  'Financial Pressures and Dynastic Problems in Angevin England', in Harlaxton Medieval Studies Volume IX, Family and Dynasty in late Medieval England, eds. R Eales and S Tyas (Shaun Tyas, 2003)
  
  'Lackland: The Loss of Normandy in 1204' History Today, March 2004

For details on how to commission research please click here.

Sticks Media Services include - history research, specialist archive research, genealogy (family history research), house history research, military research, television research, research at The National Archives TNA, Family Records Centre, British Library, London Metropolitan Archives and institutions throughout the UK, expert on-screen advice from Dr Nick Barratt