{"id":2190,"date":"2023-06-22T16:46:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2023-06-22T16:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:46:53","slug":"dr-peter-donaldson-helps-claire-foy-trace-her-family-history-on-bbcs-who-do-you-think-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2023\/06\/22\/dr-peter-donaldson-helps-claire-foy-trace-her-family-history-on-bbcs-who-do-you-think-you-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Peter Donaldson helps Claire Foy trace her family history on BBC\u2019s Who Do You Think You Are?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/people\/390\/donaldson-peter\">Dr Peter Donaldson<\/a>, featured in a recent episode of BBC\u2019s <em>Who Do You Think You Are?<\/em> to advise actress Claire Foy on her family history.<\/p>\n<p>Peter met Claire at Carlisle Castle, a former military barracks where her great-great-grandparents Henry and Maria Stimpson lived until Henry\u2019s death. Peter was able to share the tragic circumstances of Henry\u2019s untimely passing \u2013 a drowning during an off-duty cross-country race \u2013 which enabled Claire to visit the river where her great-great-grandad died.<\/p>\n<p>The story concludes on a happier note as documents provided by Peter describe how the local community rallied together to raise money for Maria and her five children, allowing them to continue their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the experience, Peter said: &#8216;It was great fun to be able to help Claire find out more about the lives of her ancestors in Carlisle&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The full episode is available to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/m001mptb\/who-do-you-think-you-are-series-20-2-claire-foy\">view on BBC iPlayer<\/a>, with Peter\u2019s segment beginning around nine minutes in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer, Dr Peter Donaldson, featured in a recent episode of BBC\u2019s Who Do You Think You Are? to advise actress Claire Foy on her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2023\/06\/22\/dr-peter-donaldson-helps-claire-foy-trace-her-family-history-on-bbcs-who-do-you-think-you-are\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80151,"featured_media":2192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}