Monthly Archives: October 2011
I defend my bonnet again! Well, not literally – but I explain my philosophy
Interview by Tim Jones in the Borehamwood Times Historian, author and broadcaster Lucy Worsley is the chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity that looks after Hampton Court Palace, the Tower of London and Kensington Palace among others. Tim Jones spoke to her about her mission to make history as popular as the
Continue ReadingI respond to my detractors and defend my bonnet!
‘My View’ in the Daily Mail Weekend Magazine, 15 October 2011 I was surprised recently to find myself being attacked by my fellow historian, Alison Light, on Radio 4’s Today programme. She accused me of ‘cheapening history’ by ‘dressing up in bonnets and climbing in and out of carriages’ (as I did, with gusto, in
Continue ReadingIn my (tea) cups tonight on BBC4
Well, you wait all your life to be interviewed about tea-cups, and then it happens three times in quick succession. I’m with C.S. Lewis when he said that ‘you can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me’, and tea is my favourite drink. I also like
Continue ReadingI eat eight raw oysters straight from the salty sea
Tomorrow when I go to the office I’m going to have rather a swanky answer to the question ‘what did you get up at the weekend’? I went oyster fishing, and have the sunburn, the slightly queasy sensation from sea-sickness and over-indulgence, and the cut hands to prove it. I was in Whitstable and thereabouts making a
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