Business Manager - UK Branch

Sarah-Jane Newbery
Qualifications: BA (Hons) History, University of Surrey

Sarah joined SRA in 2006, primarily to run the rapidly expanding business. Prior to this, she worked at The National Archives for nine years, as a Reader Adviser in the main reading rooms, where she gained an in-depth knowledge of The National Archives holdings. She also worked as Deployment and Development Manager for the Reader Services Department and Business Monitoring Officer in the Chief Executive's Department. Her research interests include Early Modern Social History, Local History and Genealogy.

SRA Principal Researchers:

Laura Berry
Qualifications: BA (Hons) History with Spanish BA, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey

Laura joined SRA in 2005. She is the principal researcher for The History Channel's major new series, Hidden House Histories. She has also been involved in Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC1) History Mysteries (BBC2) Not Forgotten (BBC2) and Family Ties (BBC4.) Laura’s responsibilities include researching for numerous national newspaper and magazine articles. Laura has also undertaken the Researchers Survival Course in May 2006 with Pact.training

Her areas of interest include Modern Social History, House History, Genealogy and Military History.


Sara Khan
Qualifications: BA (Hons) History, London School of Economics, MA African / Asian History, School Of African Studies.

Sara joined SRA in 2006 and has undertaken a wide variety of research projects, including Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC)(Series 1-4), So You Think You're Royal (Sky One), as well as contributing to various other research projects for The Daily Telegraph, Tracing Your Roots (Radio 4), and has contributed to several books and publications on all aspects of genealogy.

Prior to joining SRA, Sara worked as an in-house researcher at The National Archives.

She enjoys all aspects of social and religious history, specifically the history of London.

Researchers:

We employ a team of freelance researchers covering a wide range of historical subjects, periods and themes.

UK Researchers

Where appropriate, SRA uses other researchers from various specialist backgrounds to provide services tailored to meet the needs of each project.

Scotland - Brian Thomson and Ruth Boreham

Northern Ireland - we have a full research team based in Northern Ireland

Rep. of Ireland - we also have a full research team based in the Republic of Ireland