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What Happened in the Jelly House

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By Lucy Worsley
| My Life in the Past
There are establishments in Georgian London dedicated entirely to the consumption of jelly. Their customers are army officers and merchants and the occasional respectable woman, and they go there in the mornings the way we might go to a coffee shop now. They sit, they eat their jelly, they leave. None of this, in the daytime, is remarkable. But at night, things change. It’s the summer sale at MY LIFE IN THE PAST! Click here for 25% off annual subscriptions.
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'Every Woman Ought to Carry a Hammer'

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By Lucy Worsley
| My Life in the Past
When I’m lying on my death bed, deciding which events of my life I enjoyed the most, pretty high on the list will be the night I burned down a house with my Suffragette sisters. We did it for a television programme, and it was all perfectly legal and carefully managed. But the feeling of doing it, just for a few minutes, was not. It was a feeling of wild joy that we were doing something completely outrageous, something I’d been told, my whole life, that women simply don’t do.
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The King in the Library

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By Lucy Worsley
| My Life in the Past
One of the advantages of working at Historic Royal Palaces is that most of the people there love history — not just the ones, like the curators, whose actual job it is. Some of the most enthusiastic historians I’ve known were the Historic Royal Palaces Security Advisor, the Head of Health and Safety, and the Head of Internal Audit. We meet here for history once a week! Join us? I got to know the latter after an audit of collections management.
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