What Was Really In George Washington's Mouth
Cuttlefish, gunpowder, and a black market in human teeth: the strange history of keeping — or replacing — your smile.
My Life in the Past
adventures with a British historian at large! a weekly update from historian and broadcaster Lucy Worsley
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What Happens in the Royal Bedchamber Never, Ever Stays There
From a ten-year-old's wedding night to Hampton Court’s pornographic graffiti: palace sex was never, ever private.
What Happens In The Royal Bedchamber Never, Ever Stays There
From a ten-year-old's wedding night to Hampton Court’s pornographic graffiti: palace sex was never, ever private
The best Agatha Christie novel isn't the one you think
A hotel bedroom, a locked room scenario, and my suspicions about her most famous novel
The Woman Who Wouldn’t Knit Socks To Defeat Hitler
She was twenty, a parlourmaid from Newcastle, and prepared to go to prison
Was Jane Austen a lesbian?
Claire Tomalin thinks I said yes. Here’s what I actually believe.
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The Woman Who Shot Her Lover
Inside the Knightsbridge murder case that scandalised 1932 London — and the trial that let Elvira Barney walk free
What Happened in the Jelly House
Georgian London's most surprising aphrodisiac — and what it tells us about who gets to write history
'Every Woman Ought to Carry a Hammer'
Annie Kenney lost a finger in a cotton mill, then went on to terrify the Liberal government