Ruth Paley is an English

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and

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. She has worked at

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Kew Kew () is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its population at the 2011 census was 11,436. Kew is the location of the Royal Botanic Gardens ("Kew Gardens"), now a World Heritage Site, which includes Kew Palace. Kew is ...

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, where she has written several books. She is currently working for the

History of Parliament Trust The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England. The history will principally consist of a prosopography, in w ...

on the House of Lords from 1660 to 1832. Since 2006, she has been editor of ''Archives'', the journal of the

British Records Association The British Records Association (widely known as the BRA, pronounced as three letters) is a British learned society founded in 1932 to promote the preservation, understanding, accessibility and study of historic records and archives. It is a regi ...

. She has also co-authored accessible works such as ''Honour, Interest and Power: An Illustrated History of the House of Lords, 1660–1715'', aimed at bridging scholarly research and public interest

Works

* ''Using Criminal Records'', Public Record Office, 2001 * ''My Ancestor was a Bastard: a family historian's guide to sources for illegitimacy in England and Wales'', Society of Genealogists, 2004 * ''Family Skeletons: exploring the lives of our disreputable ancestors'', with

Simon Fowler Simon Geoffrey Fowler (born 25 May 1965) is an English singer, best known as the frontman of Ocean Colour Scene. The Fanatics Simon Fowler commenced his music career as the lead singer and songwriter for Birmingham band The Fanatics, which cons ...

, The National Archives, 2005

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