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Meet the presenters

 
Jonathan, Miranda and Nick
The presenters, Jonathan,Miranda and Nick

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Nick Barratt Nick Barratt is a Historian, with special knowledge of medieval state finance. He’s been involved in researching many television programmes including House Detectives and Who Do You Think You Are?

Nick has published widely on personal history and has worked for both the Public Record Office and The National Archives.

His personal approach to unravelling historical mysteries is to look at the archival evidence. Through his experience working at The National Archives, he can provide the documents which sometimes prove or disprove local theories. Nick’s ability to ‘crack the code’ contained in historical documents often provides the first lead in unravelling the history mystery.

Jonathan FoyleJonathan Foyle is a Historian of Architecture, Art and Culture, an Archaeologist and an Associate Curator of Historic Royal Palaces. He is also a published painter.

Jonathan’s first approach to solving historical mysteries is to look at the buildings, deconstructing them and placing them within a local, national and historical context.

He has a trained eye for identifying clues in a built-up environment and is specialised in drawing wider conclusions about what a building can reveal about its local environment and national significance. The information Jonathan can elicit from a building is interwoven with his gift for storytelling.

Miranda KrestovnikoffMiranda Krestovnikoff has a background in natural history and has a love of the British countryside. She is passionately curious about the history hidden in our landscape. Miranda is perhaps best known for presenting Coast and Hidden Treasure and Channel Four’s sunken ship archaeology series, Wreck Detectives .

Her approach to solving the mysteries involves exploring the environment on foot, comparing maps and gleaning facts from local historians and experts.

 
 
 

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