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Why subscribe to My Life in the Past?

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By Lucy Worsley
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Hello! I’m Lucy Worsley. My work as a historian takes me to some old and beautiful places, and into some surprising corners of the past. Subscribing means that you can come along too for the ride! 2025 was a bit of a turning point in my life. After 21 years as Chief Curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces in London, I cleared out my office at Hampton Court to begin new adventures as a historian at large.
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What It Actually Feels Like to Work Inside a Palace

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By Lucy Worsley
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It’s February, it’s dark, and I’m standing at a front door I don’t yet know how to open. I’m wrestling with a clanking, confusing bunch of keys issued to me only hours before. Let’s meet next week too? This was the first evening of my new job as Chief Curator of Britain’s Historic Royal Palaces, and nobody had given me a manual for what to expect. At this point in my life, twenty years ago, I was just beginning my two decades of working at Hampton Court.
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What It Actually Feels Like To Work In A Palace

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By Lucy Worsley
| My Life in the Past
It’s publication day today for my new book QUEENS AND KINGS, AN UNUSUALLY PERSONAL HISTORY! It’s a history book but also a bit of a memoir, and here’s a taster for you! For twenty years I checked a ring of keys called “bunch 16” out of the security office every morning, and sat in what I’m fairly sure was the coldest office in England.
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