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Lucy Worsley (Reading, 18 de diciembre de 1973) es una historiadora, escritora, conservadora y presentadora de televisión británica. Worsley es una de las principales curadoras de la organización Historic Royal Palaces. Es conocida por su papel como presentadora de series históricas de la BBC Television. Biografía Worsley nació en Reading, Berkshire, hija de Peter y Enid Worsley. Su padre enseñaba geología en la Universidad de Reading, mientras que su madre era una consultora en políticas educativas. En una entrevista en The Lady Magazine, Worsley cuenta que su madre es su gran ejemplo, porque gracias a ella se convirtió en una buena feminista. Esta perspectiva feminista se refleja en los programas que ha creado para la BBC, como la serie ‘Harlots, Housewives and Heroines’.[1] Antes de entrar en la universidad, Worsley ha ido a The Abbey School en Reading, St. Bartholomew’s School en Newbury y West Bridgford School en Nottingham. Estudió Historia Antigua y Moderna en New College en Oxford. Se graduó en 1995 con un BA First-class Honours Degree. En 2001, recibió el título de Doctor en Filosofía de la Universidad de Sussex. Ahora Worsley vive en Southwark en la orilla del río Támesis en el sur de Londres. Vive con su marido, el arquitecto Mark Hines con que se casó en noviembre de 2011. Carrera Conservadora y académica El primer trabajo que Worsley realizó era en la casa histórica de Milton Manor, cerca de Abingdon, en el verano del año 1995. Aquí trabajó como conservadora e hizo visitas guiadas por la mansión. Su segunda ocupación fue para la Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. En este empleo, trabajó en la sección de molinos de agua y molinos de viento. Uno de los eventos que ayudó organizar era el National Mills Day. Por un periodo de cinco años, del 1997 hasta el 2002, fue inspectora de edificios históricos para la English Heritage Trust en la región de las Tierras Medias Orientales. Mientras que estaba trabajando para esta fundación, también estudiaba la vida de Guillermo Cavendish, el primer duque de Newcastle. Escribió la English Heritage Guide sobre su casa, el Castillo de Bolsover. Haber estudiado este personaje histórico, escribió el tesis titulado ‘The Architectural Patronage of William Cavendish, first duke of Newcastle, 1593-1676’. Para este tesis, recibió el título de Doctor en Filosofía de la Universidad de Sussex. Luego, en 2007, convirtió su tesis en el libro titulado ‘Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses’. En 2002 también trabajo durante un periodo breve para los Museos de Glasgow.[2] En 2002, empezó a trabajar como jefe conservadora en el Historic Royal Palaces donde sigue trabajando hasta el día de hoy. El Historic Royal Palaces es la organización benéfica independiente responsable para el mantenimiento del Torre de Londres, el Palacio de Hampton Court, los Apartamentos del Estado del Palacio de Kensington, al Casa del Banquete en Whitehall y el Palacio y los Jardines de Kew. Uno de los mayores proyectos que supervisaba era la restauración de los Apartamentos del Estado del Palacio de Kensington y sus jardines entre 2012 y 2018. Esta restauración costó 12 millones de libras esterlinas. La restauración incluía las habitaciones de las princesas Margarita y Diana. Contrariamente a la opinión pública común, Worsley cree que la princesa Diana sigue teniendo importancia histórica aunque perdió su importancia en el presente. Por eso, la princesa Diana no recibió su propia sala de exhibición. Worsley describe el Palacio de Kensington como un lugar donde siempre había princesas infelices debajo de la presión de entregar un heredero varón.[3] En 2005, fue elegida investigadora principal el Institute of Historical Research de la Universidad de Londres. También era apuntada profesor visitante en la Universidad Kingston. Televisión Desde el año 2011, hasta el día de hoy, Worsley trabaja para la BBC. El primer programa que presentaba ella misma, era ‘If Walls Could Talk’ en el que exploraba la historia de casas británicas desde las de los campesinos hasta los palacios reales. El tema de casas y hogares es un tema recurrente en los programas de televisión que fabrica para la BBC. En 2011, también presentó la serie ‘Elegance and Decadance’.[4] En 2012, presentó una serie con Mark Hill, un experto de antigüedades y objetos coleccionistas. Este programa se llamó ‘Antiques Uncovered’. Al mismo tiempo, también se transmitió en la BBC una serie de Worsley titulada ‘Harlots, Housewivese and Heroines’. Esta serie trató de las vidas de mujeres después de la Guerra Civil británica y la Restauración inglesa del rey Carlos II. Es evidente que aquí más una vez vemos el interés de Worsley en la vida de mujeres en el pasado, un tema poco comentado por otros historiadores. Así Worsley desempeña un papel en hacer visible las vidas de mujeres para un público muy amplio. No es casualidad entonces que el eslogan del programa es ‘A 17th Century History for Girls’. Luego, presentó un documental sobre la obra de Dorothy Hartley titulada ‘Food in England’. El libro de Harley del año 1954, ha tenido una influencia importante en la cocina inglesa de hoy en día. La serie BBC ‘A Very British Murder’ examinó la obsesión nacional con el asesinato. La serie investigó un número de casos del siglo XIX, por ejemplo los Ratcliff Highway Murders que recibió attencion nacional en 1811, el Asesinato del granero rojo en 1826 y el Bermondsey Horror de Frederick y Maria Manning en 1849.[5] En 2014, la serie trilogía de ‘The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain’ exploraba las contribuciones de los reyes nacidos en Alemania Jorge I y Jorge II. La serie explicó porque el rey hannoveriano Jorge I era elegido monarca británico, como era sucedido por su hijo muy diferente Jorge II y porque, sin ellos, el Reino Unido hubiera sido un lugar muy diferente. La serie puso énfasis en la influencia positiva de esos reyes, mientras que también mostraba los defectos de ellos. ‘A Very British Romance’, una serie trilogía para BBC Four, era basada en las novelas románticas para descubrir las fuerzas que dan forma a la idea británica de vivir ‘felices para siempre’ y como nuestros sentimientos eran afectados por ideas sociales, políticas y culturales. En 2016, Worsley presentó un documental ‘Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia’ en enero. En septiembre de 2016, filmaba una serie ‘A Very British History’ para la BBC Four. En 2017, presentó una serie trilogía titulada ‘British History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley’, desacreditando perspectivas históricas de las Guerras de las Dos Rosas, la Revolución Gloriosa británica y la Ocupación británica de India. En 2019, Worsley presentaba ‘American History’s Biggest Fibs’, estudiando la historia de la fundación de los Estados Unidos y la Revolución Americana, la Guerra Civil estadounidense y la Guerra Fría. Durante febrero y marzo de 2020, la primera serie de ‘Royal History’s Biggest Fibs’ era transmitido en la BBC Fou.... Descubre los libros populares de Lucy Worsley. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Lucy Worsley
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Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
Iain SinclairHackney, that RoseRed Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs'As detailed and as complex as a historical map, taking the reader hither and th...
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Brideshead Abbreviated
John CraceJohn Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razorsharp literary assassination, while authors ...
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Richard I (Penguin Monarchs)
Thomas AsbridgeRichard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol of national identity, he barely spent six mo...
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Unnatural Murder: Poison In The Court Of James I
Anne SomersetRoyal scandal, set against the background of the Jacobean court, involving love, bribery, poison, treachery and black magic 'a hugely enjoyable book' Daily Telegraph'A gripping de...
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William IV (Penguin Monarchs)
Roger KnightWilliam IV, the 'Sailor King', reigned for just seven years. Rash and impetuous as a young man, he was sent to join the navy by his father, George III, to bring him to order, but h...
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Discontent and Its Civilizations
Mohsin HamidDiscontent and its Civilizations is the essential first collection of non fiction from Mohsin Hamid. Discontent and its Civilizations collects the best of Mohsin Hamid's writing on...
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The King and the Catholics
Antonia FraserThe story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent AntiCatholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the...
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Great Britain's Great War
Jeremy PaxmanJeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.We may think we ...
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Queen Victoria
Lucy Worsley'A wonderfully fresh, vivid and engaging portrait.' Jane Ridley, author of Bertie: A Life of Edward VII'Has much of the abundant charm of its author.' Spectator'The glory of this b...
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The Rogue's Princess
Eve Edwards1586 London, EnglandSixteenyearold Mercy Hart is the daughter of one of London's richest and strictest cloth merchants.Kit Turner is an actor and the illegitimate son of the lat...
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How to be Topp
Geoffrey WillansAll skools make some sort at teaching the pupils things and the headmaster pin up a huge timetable of lessons ect. which make the heart sink when you look at it.Nigel Molesworth is...
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson
Daisy HayLonglisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeIn late eighteenthcentury London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week.The host was Joseph Johnson, pu...
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Katherine Swynford
Alison Weir'Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday The first fulllengt...
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Tove Jansson
Dr Tuula Karjalainen & David McDuffThe definitive illustrated biography of one of the most unique and beloved children's authors of the 20th century, the creator of the Moomins. Tove Jansson (19142001) led a long, c...
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The Scandalous Lady W
Hallie RubenholdIt was the divorce that scandalised Georgian England... She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the ma...
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The Flappers: Ingenue
Jillian LarkinPower . . . Love . . . Scandal. There's never enough to go around . . .True love conquers everything or so Gloria Carmody crazily believed. She and her runaway lover, Jerome Johns...
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Summary of Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home
Everest MediaPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The story of the Austens at Steventon Rectory really begins in the late summer o...
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The Feminism Book
DKLearn about trade and global economic crises in The Economics Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to foll...
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Aristocrats
Stella TillyardA fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the...
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Ask A Historian
Greg Jenner'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRISWhy is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? How fa...
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Queen Victoria
Elizabeth LongfordDrawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier era with exquisite detail ...
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How to be Idle
Tom HodgkinsonHow to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's entertaining guide to reclaiming your right to be idle.As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has most of us ...
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A Parcel of Patterns
Jill Paton WalshA PLAGUE A VILLAGE A LOCKDOWN 1665, Eyam, Derbyshire. 'Here I have set down all that I know of the Plague'It is 1665 and Mall Percival is a shepherd girl living in a Derbyshire v...
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The Lost Tudor Princess
Alison Weir‘Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader’ The TimesThe captivating life of Margaret Douglas a li...
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Agatha Christie
Lucy Worsley'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse' THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait' GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Worsley's sparkling biography brings...
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Brat Farrar
Josephine TeyA stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on...
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William II (Penguin Monarchs)
John GillinghamWilliam II (10871100), or William Rufus, will always be most famous for his death: killed by an arrow while out hunting, perhaps through accident or perhaps murder. But, as John G...
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The Century Girls
Tessa DunlopTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Tessa Dunlop...succeeds in weaving a rich tapestry of experiences.' Independent‘A warmhearted and engaging read, The Century Girls...
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The Penguin Social History of Britain
Roy PorterA portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals...
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Hush, Little Baby
Shane DunphyFive heartstopping true stories of terror and triumph, told by the man who tried to make life better for these troubled children ...Clive, a thirteenyearold victim of terrifying de...
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Mother
Sarah KnottWhat was mothering like in the past? When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuri...
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Stephen (Penguin Monarchs)
Carl WatkinsKnown as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (11351141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful Norman monarchy, that without clear rul...
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The Blackest Streets
Sarah Wise'An excellent and intelligent investigation of the realities of urban living that respond to no design or directive... This is a book about the nature of London itself' Peter Ackro...
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Emma
Jane AustenDiscover the classic story behind the major new film'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, r...
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The Other Countess
Eve EdwardsEngland, 1582ELLIE Lady Eleanor Rodriguez of San Jaime is in possession of a goldseeking father, a worthless title and a feisty spirit that captivates the elite of the Queen's co...
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Rival Queens
Kate Williams'Scintillating, provocative... An elegant synthesis of royal biography and political thriller.' Daily TelegraphA Times History Book of the Year: a story which inspired the Hollywoo...
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Queens of the Conquest
Alison WeirFull of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of England's medieval queens to life.A Da...
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Women Our History
DKReexamining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told.Includes evocativ...
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When Courage Calls: Josephine Butler and the Radical Pursuit of Justice for Women
Sarah WilliamsMillicent Fawcett, the leader of the British suffragist movement, described Josephine Butler as 'the most distinguished English woman of the nineteenth century'. Among the first fe...
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Love In Cyberia
Chloë RaybanThere's only one thing that could induce technophobe Justine to dabble on the Information SuperHighway and it's male. Yes the chance to share lovebytes with a cool boybabe...
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Con Men and Cutpurses
Lucy MooreAn enthralling anthology of 18thcentury writings that gives a fascinating insight into the dreadful misdeeds of and the horrible punishments meeted out to an array of rogues and ...
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James II
David WomersleyThe short, actionpacked reign of James II (168588) is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British history. James managed, despite having access to tremendous reserve...
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The Waiting Game
Nicola Clark'Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight' Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary ReviewEvery Tudor Queen had ladiesinwaiting. They were her confidantes and ...
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Restoration London
Liza PicardHow did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What makeup did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing pic...
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle'When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the in...
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Complete Callanetics
Callan PinckneyThe original onehour Callanetics programme is the subject of the worldrenowned CALLANETICS book. This safe, effective, noimpact exercise routine works deeply on all your muscles an...
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Summary of Lucy Worsley's If Walls Could Talk
Everest MediaPlease note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The medieval great hall was a wonderful place to be, as it was warm, smoky, and cr...
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Ruby Red
Linzi GlassIn Ruby Winters' world, colour opens some doors and slams others shut. Her opulent Johannesburg neighbourhood is a far cry from the streets of Soweto where anger and hatred simmer ...
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Zero Days
Ruth WarePREORDER ONE PERFECT COUPLE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL AND THEN THERE WERE NONE meets THE TRAITORS FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR RUTH WARE, OUT JULY 202...
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Naked
Kevin BrooksLondon, 1976: a summer of chaos, punk, love . . . and the boy they called Billy the Kid.It was the summer of so many things. Heat and violence, love and hate, heaven and hell. It w...