Vanessa Collingridge
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Vanessa Collingridge is a Scottish author and broadcaster. After graduating from Hertford College, Oxford with a first class MA in Geography,[1] she moved to a career in television, and has worked as a producer or presenter on all five British national terrestrial television channels, as well as BBC national radio.[1]
More recently she was the author of two biographies, one of eighteenth century explorer James Cook and one of Celtic warrior queen Boudica. During her research for the former, she discovered she shared ancestry with Australian writer and illustrator George Collingridge.[2]
She currently resides in the village of Lochwinnoch in Scotland with her partner Alan Watt and sons Archie and Angus, and is studying to complete her Ph.D. at the University of Glasgow.[3][4]
[edit] Bibliography
- Cook: Obsession and Betrayal in the New World (2002), Ebury Press, ISBN 0-09-187913-2
- Boudica (2005), Ebury Press, ISBN 0-09-189819-6
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ a b Biography at Take 3 Management
- ^ Video clip of Collingridge describing her biography of James Cook (RealPlayer video)
- ^ "Weather girl and now author Vanessa Collingridge at home in Lochwinnoch", Stephenpics.co.uk, 2002
- ^ "PhD candidates", Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow
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