Monthly Archives: December 2011
An interview about ‘Courtiers’ for the History Today Book Club
Extract from History Today, January edition, 2012 Each month we recommend a work of history recently published in paperback. We discuss the book with its author and invite readers to contribute to the dialogue on our website. The History Today Book Club recommendation for January is Courtiers; The Secret History of Kensington Palace (Faber & Faber) by
Continue ReadingDead robins and other festive cheer in my article in today’s Telegraph
The makings of a modern Christmas Cooked peacocks and dead robins have come and gone, but today’s festival draws on many other unlikely tastes and rituals. Lucy Worsley in The Telegraph, 22.12.2011 ‘Take a peacock, break its neck and cut its throat,” the recipe begins. Then “flay him”, being careful to “keep the skin and
Continue ReadingThe curator’s curator
Four curators nominate their favourite living expert in the field. Article in The Guardian, 7 December 2011, by Anna Tims Lucy Worsley on Ros Savill Ros Savill, the recently retired director of the Wallace Collection in London, is an old-school but totally admirable example of the scholarly director-curator. She was the Wallace’s first female curator, her
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