This, dear friends, has been my favourite part so far of the training for my race on Saturday. It's called TAPERING. The running not so much, but the TAPERING has been great.
25.11.2025 18:54 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My closest colleagues know that I like to knock off work at regular intervals for a Carrot Break.
24.11.2025 20:50 — 👍 138 🔁 2 💬 9 📌 0
Feels funny on a Sunday night not to be on the Eurostar for my old commute to Paris, but in compensation the CHRISTMAS CAKE is made.
23.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 149 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
With your much-needed friendly encouragement, dear followers, I've finally made it to the finish line of the most tremendously ambitious project I've yet worked on.
Can't wait to show it to you on BBC Two and PBS, but meanwhile: let the Christmas-cake-making begin 😃
22.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 211 🔁 8 💬 9 📌 0
She doesn't know it yet, but one lucky lady among my friends is getting this HOT PRIESTS calendar for Christmas. Complete 'with historical notes about the Vatican.'
24.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 172 🔁 13 💬 16 📌 9
This week on MY LIFE IN THE PAST. Do you know a history teacher who deserves to be celebrated? Read the story here:
lucyworsley.substack.com/p/help-me-fi...
23.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 85 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 1
cheeky
22.10.2025 18:06 — 👍 281 🔁 11 💬 13 📌 3
Do you know a great history teacher?
Nominate them now for a new history teaching award! Maybe I'll see them at the Tower of London next year!
Nominate someone here: bit.ly/42yhGZP
#historyteachingawards
21.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 125 🔁 43 💬 5 📌 2
Male colleague:
'They're just slippers, what are you ladies so excited about?'
Us:
'But they're slippers in PINK VELVET, for sale in a beautiful shop in VENICE.'
19.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 176 🔁 3 💬 15 📌 2
How I wish I could have brought you all to Venice with me! So lovely in the October sun.
18.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 289 🔁 6 💬 7 📌 1
Arriving in Venice. Not a hair out of place.
17.10.2025 17:47 — 👍 231 🔁 7 💬 11 📌 1
What's been the most fun to write so far on MY LIFE IN THE PAST? Read my countdown here!
open.substack.com/pub/lucywors...
16.10.2025 17:14 — 👍 55 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We're in Italy! I'll definitely let you know when this series is coming to @BBCTwo and @PBS because I think it might be wonderful 🇮🇹 😃 🇮🇹
16.10.2025 11:06 — 👍 182 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0
An early-morning dash to the airport. Where do you think I might have been going?
15.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 100 🔁 3 💬 12 📌 0
I enjoy Beppe's commitment to monarchy
14.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 114 🔁 2 💬 8 📌 0
The secret's out! Read more about ⚰️VICTORIAN MURDER CLUB⚰️ here!
www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
13.10.2025 09:59 — 👍 202 🔁 19 💬 8 📌 1
Tomorrow, dear friends, at very long last, I'll finally be able to tell you what this project was. Finished a couple of days ago, and here's the burial ground in October to round things off.
12.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 128 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
Tomorrow, dear friends, at very long last, I'll finally be able to tell you what this project was. Finished a couple of days ago, and here's the burial ground in October to round things off.
12.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 74 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This week I ate my last splendid roast beef lunch at Devon's splendid Burgh Island Hotel of 2025. But I'll be back in 2026. Maybe you'd like to come on an Agatha Christie holiday with me next year?
telegraph.tripsmiths.com/tours/agatha...
11.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 161 🔁 4 💬 7 📌 0
A family member made me a sandwich with cheese, grated carrot and peanuts.
Is that UNACCEPTABLE or is it YUMMY?
Is it EVIL or is it GENIUS?
I can't decide.
(I hope she doesn't read this and think 'how ungrateful, that's the last time I'm making Lucy a sandwich.')
10.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 173 🔁 2 💬 56 📌 1
Things you might not imagine are essential
for making a history documentary
This time on MY LIFE IN THE PAST! A list of unexpected but essential things which in my opinion are vital for a history documentary.
lucyworsley.substack.com/p/things-you...
09.10.2025 16:17 — 👍 49 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Lucy Worsley Signed Books - Chiltern Bookshops
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Hello friends! I know you don't want to think about this yet, but my friends at lovely independent booksellers Chorleywood Bookshop are standing by to deliver your signed and dedicated copies of my books for your Christmas presents. They can deliver worldwide!
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08.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 80 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0
One thing I love about living by the river in central London is that yesterday I was able to text home 'sorry going to be late, my boat got stuck behind the HMS Waverley, the UK's oldest working steam ship.'
07.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 303 🔁 11 💬 12 📌 0
Is there a special name for a whole lot of pelicans? Like these ones I saw in St James's Park?
06.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 107 🔁 7 💬 19 📌 0
In an unexpected twist, team LADY KILLERS came away from the British Podcast Awards:
- without the award for which we were shortlisted🙁
- but WITH a cushion with my face on it
Silver lining, huh? 🤔
05.10.2025 15:33 — 👍 133 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
On a recent trip to Winchester, on Jane Austen business of course, I saw the Actual Mr Darcy Suit worn by Colin Firth in the 1995 version of P&P. To ladies my age, THIS IS EVERYTHING
03.10.2025 17:04 — 👍 393 🔁 18 💬 21 📌 4
Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
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