Archive - My Life in the Past

February 2025

How to write a lot of history books

Or at least: what works for me

Feb 27

A Girl’s Guide to the Middle Ages, with Dan Jones

A recording from Lucy Worsley's live video

Feb 23

47:18

The non-mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie

And what really happened

Feb 20

Please don’t call her ‘Bloody’

Mary I deserves a new name

Feb 13

6 On public speaking, nerves, and how to deal with them

including One Weird Trick from Queen Victoria

Feb 6

January 2025

What really happened to Jack the Ripper

(revealed here slightly against my better judgement)

Jan 30

Lucy Worsley & Nathan Amin: ‘mystery’ of the Princes in the Tower

A recording from MY LIFE IN THE PAST'S live video

Jan 26

49:56

4 I lived in a library

and you can, too!

Jan 23

3 Why the 'mystery' of the Princes of the Tower...

...isn't a 'mystery' at all.

Jan 16

'Have you ever seen a ghost at Hampton Court Palace?'

The most common question I got in 21 years of working there!

Jan 9

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