Dr Nick Barratt – CEO of SRA Research Agency.

Dr Nick Barratt obtained a PhD in history from King's College London in 1996, and in the same year began working for the Public Records Office (later TNA) before moving to the BBC as in-house specialist researcher. In 2000, Nick established Sticks Research Agency (SRA), Nick is founder and CEO of SRA. Major projects undertaken include the research for the first three series of BBC’s flagship genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are, with series four in production. Nick has also researched and presented the recent series Hidden House Histories for the History Channel and So You Think You’re Royal (Sky One). He has also made numerous TV appearances, acting as an informal spokesperson for history, and genealogy. (BBC Breakfast News, This Morning, GMTV among others.) He has also appeared on TV as the 'document expert' on House Detectives, and co-presented BBC2’s Open University programme History Mysteries.Nick has provided research for the BAFTA nominated Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (BBC2); as well as One Foot in the Past (BBC2), Invasion (BBC2), Not Forgotten (C4), You Don't Know You're Born (ITV1) and The Face of Britain (Channel 4). Nick has his own weekly column in the Daily Telegraph called The Family Detective and has published several books, including Tracing the History of Your House (TNA, 2nd ed, 2006), The Family Detective (2006) and Who Do You Think You Are 2 (2005) and 3(2006) to accompany the TV series two and three.

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