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Celebrating my blog’s THIRD birthday…

Yes, it’s three whole years since I began my blog, in August 2009.  I hardly imagined back then that I’d be visited by 6,000 people a month, as I am now, and thanks most sincerely to all my friends out … Continue reading →

My best bits of seventeenth-century Britain, from The Guardian

From The Guardian’s Travel section, 18th August, 2012. My best bits of historic Britain: historians’ top tips. From a tomb 5,000 years old to a club famous 50 years ago, the UK is so rich in sites it’s hard to … Continue reading →

I’m giving some talks this autumn, please come along

Here’s a sight I like: a roomful of people who’ve come to hear a history talk. I always used to have a page on this site listing upcoming talks, but I had to take it down earlier this year because … Continue reading →

In which I catch a robber, and get tourists to sit on him

You may have heard that my BBC history colleague Dan Snow sits on his own robbers.  I prefer to delegate it to other people. I’ve been in Oxford this last weekend, which prompts me to recount one of my favourite … Continue reading →

Historic Royal Palaces curators – a year in pictures

Last week I once again had to present our annual curators’ review to the trustees of Historic Royal Palaces, to update them on what we’ve been doing for the last year.  Here are some of my favourite pictures of my … Continue reading →

Why Mark Cavendish shaves his legs (from his own lips)

Today at Hampton Court everyone, but everyone, has posed for their picture on the medalists’ thrones.  We have had some terrific Olympic cycling action with Bradley Wiggins yesterday (left) and Lizzie Armitstead and Mark Cavendish whizzing past the palace at … Continue reading →

‘All The Bells’, including this one from 1727

All the bells were ringing last week for the start of the Olympic Games, and this unusual bell from our collection joined in with a tinkle of its own. At the coronation of George II in 1727, a group of … Continue reading →

In which I reveal why I showed famous comedians my pants

In my last post, I planted what Sarah (our excellent editor at Historic Royal Palaces) calls a ‘witch’s tree’. Here’s an example of a ‘witch’s tree’: ‘I wanted a cup of tea, but we’d run out of milk.  So I … Continue reading →

On being 2.5% famous

These days, when I meet an old friend I haven’t seen in a while, he or she always: a. congratulates me on my recent marriage (yes, very quietly, last November) and then b. asks me: ‘what’s it like to be … Continue reading →

New Radio 3 series ‘Lucy Worsley’s Kensington’. And false teeth.

Hello, yep, I have a new radio series coming up.  I’m guessing that you’re asking yourself the question I hear practically every day: ‘How on earth does she fit it all in?’ Here are my answers: firstly, I’m insanely energetic.  … Continue reading →