adventures with a British historian at large! a weekly update from historian and broadcaster Lucy Worsley
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'Every Woman Ought to Carry a Hammer'
When I’m lying on my death bed, deciding which events of my life I enjoyed the most, pretty high on the list will be the night I burned down a house with my Suffragette sisters.
We did it for a television programme, and it was all perfectl...
The King in the Library
Hartwell House and the man who reclaimed the French throne from Buckinghamshire
One of the advantages of working at Historic Royal Palaces is that most of the people there love history — not just the ones, like the curators, whose actual j...
The Woman Who Lost Her Children
I’ve spent a lot of time in courts. Not as a defendant (at least, not yet!) but as a historian who keeps ending up in the sort of places where women’s lives were picked apart in public.
Courtrooms are where society decides what sort of wom...
Your Hair Has Always Been Political
From Henry VIII’s beard to the fall of the British Empire: ten moments when hair revealed all
What does your hair say about you? Throughout history, a head of hair has often revealed its owner’s view of the world. Here are ten of my favour...
Not Lucy Worsley
Or: the teaching assistant from Solihull, the vicar's new wife, and other people I have been mistaken for
‘You’re at just the wrong level of fame,’ said my cameraman. ‘Some people recognise you, but you’re not properly-famous, with bodygua...
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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.
Art Newspaper Lit Ed, Film/TV Historian, Arts & Heritage Consultant, Curator, Writer. Hard Streets (Profile) out NOW! Gainsborough & Reynolds: The Art of Rivalry in Georgian London (Yale) out Feb 2027
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