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Welcome! I’m Lucy Worsley, by day Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, and by night a writer of history books.

My most recent book is A Very British Murder, the history of how the British have enjoyed crime, and it builds on my BBC Four series of the same title that was shown last month.

Thanks for visiting, do come on in & look around, and I hope to meet you in the flesh at one of my talks some day!

Home page photo by Tim Stubbings.

From My Blog

In which (to my surprise) I learn how to ski.

I have been away for a couple of weeks in the Rocky Mountains, learning how to ski.                     Why one earth would I want to do that, you may well ask, given my well-documented fear of heights, of being cold and of going too fast? Well, I did like

A frivolous article about my purple gloves

Can you believe anyone would want to publish an article about MY GLOVES?  Well, yes they did! ‘Personal Style, Lucy Worsley’, as told to David Hayes.  From The Financial Times, 9 November 2013 ‘My favourite accessory is a pair of long purple leather gloves. They are about five years old and are in a very

I am jealous of ‘Elizabeth and Her People’ at the NPG

A bit of ruff: meet the middle-class Elizabethans My article from The Times, 28 October 2013 ‘A genteel confrontation is about to take place.  No one is going to shout; tea will probably be drunk; it will all be very middle class. I’m at The National Portrait Gallery to see the the new exhibition ‘Elizabeth