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3 days ago | 
lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley |Helen Castor
Thank you, dear subscribers, for tuning into what I thought was a wonderful talk with! I’m inspired by the way she takes the writing of history so seriously, and I can’t wait for to her new biography of Elizabeth I. If you missed us and want to catch up, please enjoy the recording here!
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6 days ago | 
lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley
A quick reminder that paid subscribers to MY LIFE IN THE PAST can join me on Sunday at 7pm, London time, for a conversation with Top Historian Helen Castor, writer of The H Files, and author of brilliant books like SHE-WOLVES and THE EAGLE AND THE HART. See you on Sunday - and do send me any more questions you want me to ask her! Want to join us but not yet a subscriber?
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1 week ago | 
lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley
Hello! Spring has definitely sprung here in London, I’m four months into MY LIFE IN THE PAST, and I’m thrilled to have had your company as I’ve ranged through the centuries in search of the sort of history that you and I both like. In case you don’t know me: I’m Lucy Worsley, a historian-at-large. I worked for 21 years as Chief Curator at the independent charity Historic Royal Palaces with an office at Hampton Court Palace. Let’s meet again next week?
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2 weeks ago | 
lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley
Listen, not every birthday. But maybe if there’s a zero on the end (or if someone else is paying!) then I’ve got just the place for you to celebrate in the very grandest Art Deco style.
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3 weeks ago | 
lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley
I could actually smell the ashes of poor old Notre Dame Cathedral in the air as I walked across Paris. Six years ago, I was on my way to the Palace of Versailles for Easter, and I wanted to change from the metro to the RER at St-Michel Notre Dame. Of course the station was closed, because of the fire the week before. I found my way above ground with the enthusiastic assistance of a gentleman who I’d taken to be a Metro employee, but who actually turned out to be a lawyer.
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1 month ago | 
lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley
Yes, I have a favourite murderess. No, I’m not proud of it. But our all-female detective agency, investigating the lives and crimes of women in the past for Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley, the BBC Radio Four series and BBC Sounds podcast, has now examined more than forty different female criminals. It’s only human to have a preference, right?
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1 month ago | 
lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley |Annie Gray
Thank you everyone who tuned into my live video with ! We talked about the Tudor dish where a goose and a suckling pig get sewn together, why you might put sugar in wine, Queen Victoria’s appetite, Annie’s passion for Victorian food writer Mrs Acton, what food and teach us about class, her favourite weird kitchen utensil and much, much more! I’ll be watching it back myself for the recipe for chocolate and vanilla blancmange Easter eggs - Annie says an 11 year old can do it, so I’m in with at...
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Lucy Worsley |Anne Tyler |Colin Thubron |Kazuo Ishiguro
Poet laureate Simon Armitage talks about his writing life and about a new collection of poems, Blossomise, that celebrates the transformations of spring. Blossomise is a collaboration between Armitage and illustrator Angela Harding. The 22 poems range between haikus that honour Japanese traditions of the blossom festival to stylistic pieces that take on the tones of ballads, hymns, songs, prayers and nursery rhymes.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Lucy Worsley |Colin Thubron |Anne Tyler |Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and academic Professor Janet Todd marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen by showing how Austen has inspired and challenged her personally through different phases of her life. Todd reveals what ‘living with Jane Austen’ has meant to her and what it might also mean to others. She reflects on her own life and on Austen’s letters, manuscripts and novels. Todd says Austen has an undimmable power to help us understand the world and our minds and bodies.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Ken Hom |Colin Thubron |Peter Carey |Lucy Worsley
Vice-Chancellor’s Interview.
