I hope you managed to find tonight’s episode, bumped from Monday to Tuesday by the Buckingham Palace programme with Fiona Bruce (and the admirable Kathryn Jones, my colleague from the Royal Collection).  Tonight it’s the Peterloo Massacre and the Luddites … Continue reading →

Hello, and tonight on ‘Elegance and Decadence, The Age of The Regency’, we’ll be doing some dirty dancing, better known as waltzing … read more about it here. We’ll also be covering sugar sculpture, Greek architecture, Buckingham Palace, Regent Street … Continue reading →

Tonight’s the night!  Six months of hard work by everyone mentioned on that card plus many more.  That’s six months of early starts, rain and dangers to health (including hot air balloons, galloping horses, and the enormous fried breakfasts without which no … Continue reading →

George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty. Britain’s Most Useless  Monarch deserves some credit for presiding over a transformative decade … Lucy Worsley in The Guardian, Monday 29th August Endless Jane Austen film adaptations have given us the idea that … Continue reading →

The Byronic look: overweight and unattractive.  BBC series on Regency Britain paints an unflattering portrait of ‘self-regarding poser’ Lord Byron. Mark Brown in The Guardian, Saturday 27 August 2011 When a man is noted for his Byronic looks he is … Continue reading →

From The Radio Times, 27 August 2011 He was the ‘fop at the top’, but the Prince Regent was more than a crude caricature, says historian Dr Lucy Worsley. Well, almost … 1. They called him the Prince of Whales… … Continue reading →