historical and archival research:
families
houses
heritage
business
Research and Services
Family History and Genealogy
Providing tailored research services for individuals and organisations for a wide range of purposes: whether you have hit a brick wall in your own research; are interested in uncovering the stories behind individual people or industries; would like your own research verified; or need some help starting your family tree from scratch.
As each story is unique, so is the way each project is delivered and end result tailored to the client's needs and budget - from simple pdf reports, to bound books and large-scale charts.
House Histories; Company Histories; Heritage Projects
Providing archival research for the corporate and heritage sector and house histories for individuals.
Each project is developed in partnership and conversation with the client and based on their needs - whether that is content for an exhibition; research to support a programme of activity for a corporate anniversary; or an individual who simply wants to know more about the origins of their own house.
About me: why Squiggly Stories
Steph Hagan is a researcher and consultant with over 20 years experience in the private and non-profit sector before turning freelance in 2016.
Her own squiggly career includes working for an architect; researching a book about the venture capital industry, and 14 years spent working with companies on sustainability and community investment initiatives. With degrees in history and design studies, she understands how both the research question and format of the end product influence each other and has produced content for a wide range of offline and online media.
Squiggly Stories was created to help tell the stories of the people, houses and places in our pasts; stories which can only be told by knitting together multiple different strands and sources of information. Neither the stories, nor the research process, are often straightforward or linear!