My Life in the Past

1 week ago | lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley

Hello! As I’ve recently had a bit of a surge in subscriptions (thank you!) I thought I’d introduce newcomers to what goes on round here. Basically, it’s history, in its many and varied forms. Mainly British, largely social or cultural, and generally from the Tudors onwards. Lovely to meet you! Shall we do it again next week?

2 weeks ago | lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley

‘My favourite thing has been, is, and probably always will be,’ wrote Agatha Christie, ‘cream.’Agatha was a self-professed ‘greedy girl’, whose appetites (to me at least) form a not insignificant part of her charm. I’m writing to you from a holiday this week, during which I’ve done an awful lot of swimming and eating. Having a holiday doesn’t come naturally to me, but Agatha would have approved. One of the things I really like about is her joie de vivre.

3 weeks ago | lucyworsley.substack.com | Lucy Worsley

This week my TOP SECRET NEW PROJECT has taken me into the autopsy room once more! More about that later in the year. The experience has got me thinking about the history of entertainment based on violent crime, something that begins - I’d argue - in the early nineteenth century, and continues to this very day. Our fascination with murder has spawned some wildly weird artefacts and collectibles, and today I’ll introduce a few of my favourites.

1 month 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?

1 month 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.