Welcome To Lucy Worsley

The Complete and Utter Written Works of Lucy Worsley

Books

If Walls Could Talk, An Intimate History of the Home, Faber and Faber / Bloomsbury USA (2011/2012)

Courtiers, The Secret History of Kensington Palace, Faber and Faber / Bloomsbury USA (2010)

The Royal Palaces of London, with David Souden and Brett Dolman, Merrell in association with Historic Royal Palaces (2008)

Cavalier: a Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses, Faber and Faber / Bloomsbury USA (2007)

Hampton Court Palace - The Official Illustrated History, with David Souden, Merrell in association with Historic Royal Palaces, London (2005)

Kirby Hall, English Heritage guidebook (2000)

Bolsover Castle, English Heritage guidebook (2000)

Hardwick Old Hall, English Heritage guidebook (1998)

Contributions to books

Kensington Palace Essential Tales, contributor, Historic Royal Palaces (2010)

Henry VIII 500 Facts, contributor, Historic Royal Palaces (2009)

‘Lost in Delight’ in Discover the Gardens, Hampton Court Palace official garden guidebook, Historic Royal Palaces (2008)

‘A Royal Flush’ in Hampton Court Palace guidebook, Historic Royal Palaces, (2008)

‘The Menagerie’ in the Tower of London guidebook, Historic Royal Palaces (2007)

Royalist Refugees: William and Margaret Cavendish at Rubens’ House, 1646-1660, two essays and catalogue entries in exhibition catalogue, the Rubenshuis/Stad Antwerpen (2006)

Case studies in Prisoners of the Tower, The Tower of London as a state prison, 1100-1941, Historic Royal Palaces (2004)

‘Harley, Henrietta Cavendish, countess of Oxford and Mortimer (1694-1755)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (2004)

Entries on the great houses of the Midlands, Treasures of England and Wales, Everyman, London (2002)

‘A Set of Seventeenth Century Caesars’ was reproduced in Country Houses and Collections, An Anthology, ed. Geoffrey Beard, Clifford, Yorkshire (2002) pp.66-7

‘The South Midlands’ in The Everyman Guide to England and Wales, ed. John Julius Norwich, London (2000)

Articles

'First stirrings', a review of 'The Origins of Sex' by Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Weekend Financial Times (4/5 February 2012)

Review of 'Queen Anne, The Politics of Passion' by Anne Somerset, London Evening Standard (2 February 2012)

 'Mince Pies and the Making of a Modern Christmas', The Daily Telegraph (23 December 2011) p. 19

The Artist's Artist.  Four curators nominate their favourite living expert in their field', The Guardian (7 December 2011)

'London books of the year: celebrating our great city', The Evening Standard (1 December 2011)

Review of 'The Gentry, Stories of the English' by Adam Nicolson, Financial Times (30 October 2011).

'An Intimate History of Your Home', The Historian, The Magazine of the Historical Association, no. 11 (autumn 2011) pp. 6-9

'The God-maker Who Did His Job Too Well', on Rubens and Britain, Tate Etc. (Issue 23, Autumn 2011) pp. 90-93

Review of 'The Elizabethans' by A.N. Wilson, The London Evening Standard (8th September 2011)

'Rehabilitating Old Naughty', comment piece in The Guardian (29th August 2011)

'Our most useless prince?' He was 'the fop at the top', but the Prince Regent was more than a crude caricature, says historian Dr Lucy Worsley.'  Well, almost...' The Radio Times (27th August 2011) pp. 24-25

'The king ruled by his excesses ... Lucy Worsley examines the life of George IV', The Sunday Express (21st August 2011) pp. 52-3

'Suits you, madam.  Trouser suits have always helped us walk tall, says style historian Lucy Worsley'.  The Times (17 August 2011) p. 8

'Peter, the feral child who captivated King George', The Daily Telegraph (10 August 2011) p. 30

'Oral History', History Today (May 2011) pp. 5-6

'A History of the Kitchen', BBC Who Do You Think You Are? magazine (May 2011) pp. 39-42

'Home Truths', the fascinating stories behind the living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedrooms in your house...' Daily Express (20 April 2011) pp. 36-37

'Live Like Bess of Hardwick', on the homes of the future, The Guardian comment piece (13 April 2011)

'Kitchen Evolution', Waitrose Weekend (14 April 2011) p. 11

'History Starts At Home', The Daily Mail (9 April 2011)

'The Politics of Hair', BBC History Magazine (April 2011) pp. 50-4

'See You In Court', Qantas Magazine (April 2011) pp. 66-70

'Style and Splendour, Lucy Worsley unlocks London's historic royal palaces', Country and Townhouse Magazine (April 2011) pp. 75-77

Review of Katie Whitaker, 'A Royal Passion', Times Literary Supplement (5 November 2010) p. 11

Contribution to 'Let's Get Convival', in TBWA Paper, Issue 6 (November 2010) p. 6

'Judicious razzle-dazzle can bring dry bones to life', The Guardian (18 June 2010) p. 34

'You rang, your Majesty?' Life below stairs at the royal palaces', Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine (July 2010) pp. 66-71

'Figures on the stairs' (about William Kent's work at Kensington Palace) Country Life (2 June 2010) pp. 118-121

Review of 'Inheritance, The Story of Knole & The Sackvilles', The Evening Standard (6 May 2010)

'How to survive in the Georgian Court', BBC History Magazine, issue 5 (May, 2010)

Review of 'Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill', exhibition at the V&A, History Today, Volume 60, Issue 5 (May 2010) p. 58

Review of Jeremy Musson, 'Up and Down Stairs, The History of the Country House Servant', Times Literary Supplement (2 April 2010) p. 26

'Courtiers', on the quarrel between George I and his son, in Majesty Magazine, Volume 30, No. 4 (April 2010) pp. 26-30

'Flights of Georgian Fancy', on the King's Grand Staircase at Kensington Palace, History Today, Volume 60, Issue 4 (April 2010).

‘The Trials of Queen Caroline’, The Georgian, Issue 2 (2009) pp. 20-22

‘On my bookshelf: Robert Smythson and the Architecture of the Elizabethan Era by Mark Girouard’, Museums Journal (N0vember 2009, p. 55

Review of Emily Cole, (ed.) ‘Lived in London’, Times Literary Supplement (19 October 2009)

Review of Julia Prewitt Brown, ‘The Bourgeois Interior’,  Penny Sparke, ‘The Modern Interior’ and R.C. Ellickson, ‘The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth’, Times Literary Supplement (17 July 2009) p. 28

Review of ‘Harbor Hill’ by Richard Guy Wilson, Times Literary Supplement (19 June 2009) p. 11

‘Princess Victoria’s Wardrobe Revealed’, Country Life (February 2009) pp. 18-19

‘Dressed for Success’, Museums Journal (November 2008) pp. 34-5

‘When Englishmen became civilised’, Country Life (20 September 2007) pp. 128-30

‘Feast for a king’, Waitrose Food Illustrated (September 2007) pp. 58-60

‘Restoration Period’, in the ‘Point of Departure’ column in History Today (August 2007) pp. 70-71

‘Case study two: Historic Royal Palaces’ in Telling Tales: a Guide to Effective Storytelling Programmes for Museums, London Museums Hub (2006) p. 9

Review of ‘At Home in Renaissance Italy’, exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Sunday Telegraph Seven magazine (29 October 2006) pp. 30-31

‘Stories in architectural history’, Society of the Architectural Historians of Great Britain Newsletter, No. 89 (Autumn 2006) pp. 1-3

Review of Paula Henderson ‘The Tudor House and Garden’, in Cornerstone, Volume 27, No. 2 (2006) p. 69

‘The Architectural Patronage of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, 1593-1676’, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, Volume 50 (2006) pp. 37-68

‘Female architectural patronage in the eighteenth century and the case of Henrietta Cavendish Holles Harley’, Architectural History, Volume 48 (2005) 

Review of ‘The British Stable’, by Giles Worsley, Apollo (June 2005) pp. 93-4

Review of ‘1599 a year in the life of William Shakespeare’, by James Shapiro, History Today, Volume 55 (June 2005) p. 56

‘A bawdy fountain at Bolsover Castle in the ‘artisan mannerist’ style’ in Renaissance Studies, Volume 19, no. 1 (2005) pp. 83-109

‘Building a family: William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, and the construction of Bolsover and Nottingham Castles’, The Seventeenth Century, Volume 19, No. 2 (Autumn 2004) pp. 229-255

Kew Palace’, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Newsletter No. 83 (Autumn 2004) pp. 8-9

‘Dear Little Kew’, in The Georgian (Summer 2004) pp.6-9

‘Reining Cavaliers’, in History Today, Volume 54 (9) (September 2004) pp.9-15

‘Behind the shutters at Kew Palace’, Context, No. 85 (July 2004) pp.25-26

‘ ‘A Habitation not so magnificent as useful’: life at Welbeck Abbey in the seventeenth century’, The Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, Volume 108 (2004) pp.123-143

‘Changing notions of authenticity: presenting a castle over four centuries’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Volume 10, No. 2 (May 2004) pp.129-150

‘Home Truths: why historic houses need to take more risks’, Museums Journal, Volume 104, No. 5 (May 2004) pp.24-27

Fellowship report in the Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies, Volume XX, no. 1 (October, 2002) p.25

‘Riding Houses and Horses: William Cavendish’s Architectural Patronage for the Art of Horsemanship’, with Tom Addyman, Architectural History, Volume 45 (2002) pp.149-229

Review of ‘Architecture and History: Royal Historical Society and Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Joint Symposium’, Sheffield, 5 – 7th April, 2002, in <;strong>SAHGB Newsletter (Autumn 2002) pp.8-9

‘All is not lost’, Heritage Today (March 2002) pp.22-25

‘Sutton Scarsdale Hall,’ SPAB News, Volume 22, no. 4 (2001) pp.26-9

‘I began to wish Myself a Horse’, English Heritage Collections Review, Volume 3 (2001) pp.70-79

‘Bolsover Castle in the Eighteenth Century’, The Georgian Group Journal, Volume 12 (2001) pp.169-184

‘The Romaunt of Bolsover Castle’, The Victorian, Volume 5 (November 2000) pp.12-16

Review of ‘Welsh Castles’ by Adrian Pettifer, SPAB News, Volume 21, no. 4 (2000) p.34

‘A Set of Seventeenth Century Caesars from Bolsover Castle’, English Heritage Collections Review, Volume 2 (1999) pp.61-65

Review of ‘The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home,’ by Peter Mandler, SPAB News, Volume 19, no. 1 (1998) pp.19-20 

A day in the life of Milton Manor,’ SPAB News, Volume 18, no. 2 (1997) pp.13-15

 


 
 

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