Staff research profiles

Head of Modern Collections

Will is a historian of the 19th and 20th-century British armed forces, particularly the British Army in 19th-century Ireland and its role during the World Wars.

Head of Community and Transport team

Jessamy is the principal record specialist for family, local and community history. Her research focuses on children and young people in the past.

Records Specialist – 19th century Parliament

Joe works across legal, military, and financial records to explore histories of crime, protest, ‘disorder’ and the law in 18th and 19th-century Britain.

Collections Researcher

Heather's specialisms include botanical history, environmental humanities, and the history of empire.

Head of Medieval Records

Sean's specialisms include the Medieval and Tudor periods, particularly the reign of Henry VII.

Policy Delivery Lead

Chris is a historian of the long-19th century. He is interested in local government and its interaction with the central administrative state.

Medieval Records Specialist

Paul's research interests include government, society, religion and the economy across the British Isles in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Principal Records Specialist (Contemporary records)

Mark is has an in-depth knowledge and experience of researching public records, specialising in 20th-century British political, social and economic history.

Principal Legal Records Specialist

Dan is an archivist and historian, specialising in the records created and received by the central law courts, from 1450–1800.

Principal Records Specialist – Empire and Commonwealth

Elizabeth is a historian with an interest in exploring the history of global processes through co-produced, creative research.

Head of Collections Research

Philippa is a historian of 17th and 18th-century Britain. She is particularly interested in maritime and colonial history.

Team Leader Modern Britain

Katherine specialises in visual collections, British social and cultural history and digital methods.

Diverse Histories Records Specialist

Vicky’s research interests include the history of British society and culture, gender and sexuality, and 20th-century social change and protest.

Head of Early Modern Records

Neil is a historian whose research focuses primarily on the governance of Britain and Ireland in the 17th century.

Team Leader: Medieval Specialists

Kathryn specialises in the history and culture of the early Middle Ages, from the 10th to the 14th centuries, with a focus on women, gender, and sexuality.

Records Specialist – Early Modern Parliament

Graham is an early modern historian, focusing on maritime and social histories, particularly in the colonial Atlantic world.

Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery)

Liberty researches histories and ongoing legacies of Atlantic slavery, primarily in Britain and the Caribbean.

Collections Researcher

Lucy specialises in the history of material culture and material texts.

Principal Records Specialist – Modern Health

Laura has a research interest in branding in the medical marketplace, and disability history – primarily focused on the thalidomide scandal.

Principal Records Specialist (Medieval)

Euan is a historian of late medieval and Tudor England, specialising in the period from the 14th through to the 16th centuries.

Modern domestic records specialist

Kevin is a sociologist and historian.

Regional Community Partnerships Manager

Iqbal leads a practice-based research programme exploring complex and nuanced readings of Britain's colonial past with diasporic communities in the UK.

Records Advisor and Volunteer Supervisor - Early Modern Team

Ralph is an early modern historian specialising in the Jacobites 1688-1759, North American colonial history, and The Civil War and Interregnum.

Collections Researcher

Giorgia works in the Research Department, her role involves creating bridges between The National Archives collections and scholarly research.

Head of Conservation for Imaging

Sarah oversees the planning and management of large-scale digitisation projects, with a focus on finding solutions to complex conservation questions.

Head of Heritage Science and Conservation Research

Marc's work focuses on the scientific study of historical collections, with interests in pigment degradation, hazardous materials and imaging techniques.

Head of Conservation and Treatment Development

Katerina is a trained archives materials conservator specialising in book conservation.

Head of Research

Eirini is interested in innovation that enables the unlocking of physical, digital and born-digital collections in new ways.

Digital Researcher

Natasha is a Digital Researcher currently focused on researcher infrastructure for the UK Government Web Archive.

Head of Emerging Technologies Research

John is a computer scientist and his specialisms include artificial intelligence, data infrastructure, digital humanities and environmental sustainability.

Digital Researcher

Bernard is interested in digital methods as alternative lenses through which to view evidence about the past.

Data Engineer

David's main research project is applying Dynamic Bayesian Networks to modelling digital preservation risk.

Programmes Manager, Archive Sector Leadership

Melinda is a historian and archivist specialising in the development of archives management and its interface with public perceptions of heritage.

Cultural Property Manager

James leads expert advice to government, grant-awarding bodies and the archives sector on archives as cultural property.

Research Engagement Manager

Mollie's specialisms include the 19th century, cultural history, LGBTQ+ history, research engagement and inclusive research practice.

Head of Research Impact, Culture and Engagement

Claire is a medieval historian specialising in the history of Britain between 1300 and 1500.

Research Culture Manager

Amelia leads the transformation of internal research culture and oversees the development of the collaborative PhD programme.