Ruth Selman

Principal Early Modern Records Specialist, Medieval and Early Modern team

Ruth Selman is a Principal Early Modern Records Specialist in the Medieval and Early Modern team.  She has worked at The National Archives in a variety of roles since 1999, focusing on the development of online guidance and tools for researchers.  She is also currently a Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD candidate at the University of Roehampton (in partnership with The National Archives, Essex Record Office and the Friends of Historic Essex, and supported by AHRC), researching the extent and impact of poverty in late seventeenth-century Essex.

Her current projects and interests at The National Archives are focused on the Privy Council in the reign of Charles I, the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, the Reformation, and early modern Roman and Venetian records in the archives.