Credentials

Stick's Principal Researchers

Dr Nick Barratt

Dr Nick Barratt obtained his PhD from King's College, London in 1996 in medieval history. He can sight-read Latin and is familiar with palaeography (handwriting and abbreviation) from the twelfth century to the present day.

He has recently appeared as a resident genealogist on BBC2's Who Do You Think You Are? Series and presented the accompanying BBCi strand programme. Other projects for the BBC include the last three series of House Detectives, as well as numerous other programmes that include Omnibus, One Foot in the Past, Victorian Death, Horizon, People Detectives and Invasion.

He has also given on-screen interviews on genealogy for News at Ten, London Tonight and The Learning Curve, and radio interviews for various local radio stations. He has written numerous articles on house history for The Times, Radio Times, Richmond Magazine and the The National Archives journal Ancestors, and given several talks, presentations and document workshops on the subject.

He recently published Tracing the History of Your House (TNA publications, 2001) and has written various academic articles on state finance in the middle ages, including two pieces for the English Historical Review, and has contributed chapters to S. Church (ed) King John: New Interpretations (Boydell, 1999) and W.M. Ormrod, M. Bonney and R. Bonney (eds) Crises, Revolutions and both Self-Sustained Growth: Essays in European Fiscal History 1130-1830 and Harlaxton Medieval Studies Volume IX, Family and Dynasty in late Medieval England (Shaun Tyas, 1999). Forthcoming articles include ‘Counting the cost: the financial implications of the loss of Normandy 1190-1307’, in Thirteenth Century England X and ‘Finance and the economy in the reign of Henry II’, in proceedings volume for conference held at University of East Anglia in September 2004He has worked as a specialist reader adviser at the The National Archives from 1996-2000, where he gained an in-depth knowledge of the The National Archives holdings, and developed the academic induction archival training scheme for students visiting the The National Archives for the first time.

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