Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the incredible locations where Royal history was made. In beautiful palaces and castles and on dramatic battlefields she investigates how Royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.
Historian Lucy Worsley and antiques expert Mark Hill uncover the stories behind remarkable antiques and how they relate to our lives today
Lucy Worsley, chief curator of the historic royal palaces, takes us through 800 years of domestic history by exploring the British home through four rooms, meeting experts and historians on the way
Lucy Worsley investigates the dark and revealing history of our curious relationship with killing. She explores notorious real life crimes from the first half of the nineteenth century, finding out how these murders were transformed into popular entertainments.
In celebration of the WI's centenary, Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusalem to reveal the surprisingly radical side of this Great British Institution.
Beginning on the Welsh island of Anglesey, where the WI's first meeting was held in a garden shed in 1915, Lucy discovers that its humble origins were no bar to the movement's grand ambitions. Some of the ...
1954年,一位名叫Dorothy Harley的女士撰写了这部名为Food in England的大部头,即便在今人的眼光下,这本书也是部难得的描写饮食的优秀著作。遗憾的是,时至今日,这本书仍未获得其应得的关注。
两次世界大战期间的那段年月里,Dorothy女士足迹遍布全英国,搜罗是时正在日益消失的乡村饮食。她栩栩如生的文字描述、精巧的画作和摄影,点点滴滴地记录着英格兰农民、劳工及乡村手工业者的生活方式和手工技能。她详尽的记录了他们的劳作方式、使用的工具、吸纳的新技术以及他们生产准备的各类食材。
Harley女士的作品当年并未全文出版,且只有一半的记录留存至今。可即便是仅剩的这些,也是不可多得的描述英格兰人民饮食的巨著。
主持人,历史学家Lucy Worseley将顺藤摸瓜,带领大家探究Dorothy女士的真面目,她是什么样的人,缘何决定撰写这样一...
Scientific experts try to uncover the secrets of the Hope Diamond, a 45-carat, deep-blue gemstone that has been housed in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, for the past 50 years. Ranked as the most valuable diamond in the world.
Why does it have a unique red afterglow How did it come to be the shape it is today And why is it believed by so ...