My Life in the Past

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New Year, new life ... in the past
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Please don’t call her ‘Bloody’
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Why the 'mystery' of the Princes of the Tower...
38
The stomach and fertility of Mary I
21
How to write a lot of history books
20
I lived in a library
19
A Greedy Girl
The endearing appetites of Agatha Christie
13
On Murder as Considered as one of the Fine Arts
Strange historical artefacts from a dark obsession
14
Why should we bother studying history?
Almost every time I do a Q+A session, these three questions come up!
21
Cold water swimming
and why it's been good for you since the eighteenth century
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48:06
Lucy Worsley and Helen Lewis on history and her book THE GENIUS MYTH
A recording from Lucy Worsley's live video
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What the heck's a 'Dollar Princess'?
warning: contains extreme glamour!
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49:41
Lucy Worsley and Helen Castor talk history books and history heroines
A recording from Lucy Worsley's live video
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Does 'true crime' make you feel dirrrty?
Our variety won't!
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Welcome to MY LIFE IN THE PAST!
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My Life in the Past
My Life in the Past
adventures with a British historian at large! a weekly update from historian and broadcaster Lucy Worsley
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