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1 week ago |
lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley
This week, the LadyKillers team have been at the Hay Festival, recording a special show with a live audience that you’ll get to hear later in the year. We stayed in a holiday house with lots of other people working in the BBC tent. We happily ate up some yoghurt left for us by The Archers, presumably it was from their farm. But Front Row came in late and woke us up in the middle of the night!But now onto these three questions which seem to come up all the time: Question One: Should I study history?
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2 weeks ago |
lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley
I’ve been dashing up and down the country for the last few weeks, giving talks about my Jane Austen biography in her 250th birthday year!And I feel in need of recuperation – ideally in the form of some healthy sea bathing. Jane herself and her family loved a seaside holiday. They liked Lyme Regis in Dorset so much that after visiting it in 1803 they came back again in 1804.
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2 weeks ago |
lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley |Helen Lewis
Thank you for tuning into my live video with the brilliant ! We talked about Jean Plaidy (again - she’s always coming up at MY LIFE IN THE PAST), Catherine de Medici, royal biographies, Tolstoy’s wife, and the problematic concept of the ‘genius’. Helen talked about the role of biopics in the making of a ‘genius’, the way we like our geniuses to be flawed individuals, and the myth-making that grows up around them.
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3 weeks ago |
lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley
Firstly, a reminder that on Sunday, 7pm, London time, I’ll be online with the brilliant Helen Lewis of The Bluestocking! Do you enjoy her weird and wonderful weekly round-up of strange stuff as much as I do? Or her funny Radio Four programme called Strong Message Here?
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3 weeks 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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