Rosemary Collins
Journalist and Writer at Freelance
Features Editor at Who Do You Think You Are?
Journalist @wdytyamagazine and aspiring writer from Bristol. She/her.
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2 weeks ago |
whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins
Actor and comedian Diane Morgan, best known for playing ill-informed TV interviewer Philomena Cunk, was born on 5 October 1975 in Farnworth in Bolton. At the start of her episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, she jokes that she “never thought in a million years” she’d be invited to be on the family history programme after making fun of it on her series Mandy.
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3 weeks ago |
whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins
Members of the public are being invited to nominate women in their family to be commemorated with England’s iconic blue plaques. Leading family history website Ancestry has partnered with Historic England for this year’s National Blue Plaque Scheme. Historic England took over responsibility for the Blue Plaque Scheme across England in 2023. As of 2023, only 15% of blue plaques in London commemorated women.
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3 weeks ago |
whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins
Leading family history company Ancestry has an unmissable offer on its DNA tests to celebrate Father’s Day on 15 June. Ancestry’s DNA test, which allows users to find family matches in a database of over 21 million people and receive estimates of their ethnic ancestry, is on sale for £49 versus a standard price of £79.
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3 weeks ago |
whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins
English Heritage is hoping to trace the descendants of 31 men who took part in a riot against the closure of an abbey 500 years ago. More than a decade prior to the Dissolution of Monasteries, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey had already started suppressing some of England’s smaller monasteries to fund planned new colleges at Oxford and Ipswich. In 1525 he ordered the closure of Bayham Abbey, near Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Incensed, local people turned to violence in support of their abbey.
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3 weeks ago |
whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins
Pop star and actor Will Young was born on 20 January 1979 in Wokingham. At the start of his episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, he says he never knew his paternal grandfather Digby Young, who died before Will was born. Will thinks he was a POW in the Second World War. “I’ve got more and more excited by this,” he says. “I think that’s ‘cause I know nothing. I wonder who these people are.”To start, Will visits his Aunt Wiggy.
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A short story I wrote has been published! It was inspired by trying to have empathy for chuggers as I tried to get past them on the street: https://t.co/LZNYP7a0Uq
Today I walked past a man saying to the woman he was with, very loudly and confidently: "The Kruger Dunning effect is when people think they know more than they do."
This is so sad. Jeremy Strong's books brought me so much joy as a child: https://t.co/DmxWlmjuBT