Behind its trademark vermilion cover, NST’s design and contents are similar to that of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly from the National Genealogical Society of the United States and the Genealogists’ Magazine from the Society of Genealogists of the United Kingdom.
Coldham was awarded the Bickersteth Medal in 1991, was a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists (FASG) and Fellow of the Society of Genealogists (FSG).
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Other than comedy, Englishness was the abiding passion for Potter, being an authority on heraldry, genealogy, and church history, a Knight Templar, a member of the Middle Temple and the Society of Genealogists, a vice-president of the Royal Society of St George and the Society of King Charles the Martyr, as well as for many years parish clerk of the church of St Botolph, Aldgate, London.
He is also, inter alios, a Vice-President of the Anthony Powell Society and was elected President of the Society of Genealogists in 2008.