adventures with a British historian at large! a weekly update from historian and broadcaster Lucy Worsley
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The Story the Bayeux Tapestry Doesn't Tell You
Unless they’ve spent recent weeks visiting the moon, history-lovers will know that the Bayeux Tapestry is now in London - in Room 30 at the British Museum - and will be until 11 July next year.
It’s the first time it’s been shown in Engla...
Who sends Anne Boleyn red roses every year?
Every 19 May, a mysterious wreath arrives at the Tower of London for the queen Henry VIII beheaded. This is the story of the woman who said ‘no’
Each year, on 19 May, a delivery arrives at the Tower of London.
Who sends red roses to Anne Boleyn?
The secret of Tower of London’s mysterious annual tradition revealed
Anne Boleyn is one of the most important characters in my book Queens and Kings: An Unusually Personal History, and she’s the queen my audiences vote most often when I ha...
Harriet Vane got her happy ending. Dorothy L. Sayers didn’t.
The creator of Lord Peter Wimsey gave her fictional self everything she was denied, and kept a giant lifelong secret
When I first read critic Julian Symons’s Bloody Murder (1972), in which he dismisses Gaudy Night as essentially a ‘woman’s...
What I'd Do With One Day of Absolute Power
If I were Queen for a day, I’d have my golden coach speed me to the Tower of London, and there I would take great pleasure in trying on the Crown Jewels.
Self-indulgence out of the way, I’d get down to the serious business of leading my su...
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I'm a historian! For ages I was Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, now I'm an ambassador for the charity. I present the (EXCELLENT) podcast LadyKillers on BBC Sounds, and also write historical biographies.
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