About Me

York Membery 

Journalism 

I’m a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Sunday Times, BBC History Magazine and The Oldie. I broke into journalism after putting together a fanzine, Wired, in the late 1980s and went on to join the Daily Mirror pop page in the early 1990s. I’ve since worked as a show business reporter or feature writer on the Mirror, Express and Sunday Times, and contributed to the Evening Standard, FT, Independent and Mail on Sunday. I’ve also written numerous travel features.

Public Relations

I handled the public relations for the Rhodes Trust’s 2003 centenary celebrations which culminated in a Westminster Hall event attended by Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela.

PUBLIC SPEAKING & AUTHOR INTERVIEWS 

I’ve given talks about the press, the media and history to organisations such as the Institute of the Americas and the Kettner Luncheon Club, as well as to cruise ship audiences. I’ve also conducted on-stage author interviews at literary and history festivals, and interviewed authors at book launch events.

LASTLY 

In 2021 I graduated with a History PhD from Maastricht University in the Netherlands after five years as a part-time external postgraduate student.

Interviewing Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons

 

My USP

I’m an ideas man. I’ve been dreaming up story ideas, and looking for hooks and angles, all my working life.

I’m well-connected. I’ve built up a huge number of trusting relationships with editors, PRs, celebrities, politicians and businessmen and women over the years.

I’ve worked on tabloids, midmarket papers and broadsheets so can adjust my writing style to suit the publication or client.

Last, but not least, I polish my copy until it gleams like chrome.

  

Interviewing sculptor and Holocaust survivor Maurice Blik at the We Have Ways Fest (July 2022)

Stories

Lindsay Hoyle – Daily Mail Weekend

Lindsay Hoyle – Daily Mail Weekend

RHOD GILBERT – Sunday Times

RHOD GILBERT – Sunday Times

Jim Dale – The Oldie

Jim Dale – The Oldie

LORD HESELTINE’S ARBORETUM – DAILY MAIL WEEKEND

LORD HESELTINE’S ARBORETUM – DAILY MAIL WEEKEND

RICHARD COLES – SUNDAY TIMES

RICHARD COLES – SUNDAY TIMES

DAME SARAH GILBERT – BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE

DAME SARAH GILBERT – BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE

John Illsley – Daily Mail

John Illsley – Daily Mail

Barbara Amiel – Sunday Times Magazine

Barbara Amiel – Sunday Times Magazine

Gibraltar – Daily Mail

Gibraltar – Daily Mail

Huw Edwards – Daily Mail Weekend

Huw Edwards – Daily Mail Weekend

Terry O’Neill – Daily Mail

Terry O’Neill – Daily Mail

 

Contact Me

Twickenham, London

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