A Very British Murder

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I was born in Reading (not great, but it could have been Slough), studied Ancient and Modern History at New College, Oxford, and I've got a PhD in art history from the University of Sussex. It also touches on the origins and evolution of the police and more specifically the emergence of the detective. If you are interested in Crime, both as fiction and as reality, especially in how it affects the public psyche, then you will certainly find a lot to appreciate here.

A Very British Murder: The curious story of how crime was

Dolman, Brett; Lipscomb,Suzannah; Prosser, Lee (2009). Henry VIII: 500 Facts. Historic Royal Palaces. ISBN 978-1873993125.Worsley began her career as a historic house curator at MiltonManor, [4] near Abingdon, in the summer of 1995, [5] before working for the SocietyfortheProtectionofAncientBuildings. From 1996 to 2002, she was an inspector of historic buildings for EnglishHeritage in the East Midlands region. During that time, she studied the life of WilliamCavendish,1stDukeofNewcastle and wrote the English Heritage guide to his home, BolsoverCastle. In 2001, she was awarded a DPhil degree from the UniversityofSussex for a thesis on The Architectural Patronage of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle, 1593–1676. [6] The thesis was later developed into Worsley's book Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses published in 2007. [7] Harlots,HousewivesandHeroines:A17thCenturyHistoryforGirlsatBBC4.com". Bbc.co.uk. 28 May 2012 . Retrieved 1 April 2013. Owen, Pamela (22 September 2013). "AVeryBritishMurder:Howwebecamehookedonmorbidmysteries". The Mirror . Retrieved 24 September 2013. Worsley, Lucy (2001). TheArchitecturalPatronageofWilliamCavendish,firstDukeofNewcastle,1593–1676 (D.Phil. thesis) . Retrieved 1 April 2013. Lucy Worsley, OBE (born 18 December 1973) is an English historian, author, curator, and television presenter.

A very British murder : the story of a national obsession

Worsley has published a number of books, many guides to houses and the like. Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court (2011) is her most recent work on history. In 2014, BBCBooks published her book, A Very British Murder, which was based on the series. [23] I don’t read a lot of non-fiction but I was attracted to this because it came up as a book club choice just after I had enjoyed several Lucy Worsley documentaries. And there is the fact that the subject matter includes Agatha Christie.

In 2014, the three-part series The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain explored the contributions of the German-born kings GeorgeI and GeorgeII. The series explained why the Hanoverian George I came to be chosen as a British monarch, how he was succeeded by his very different son George II and why, without either, the current United Kingdom would likely be a very different place. The series emphasises the positive influence of these kings whilst showing the flaws in each. A Very British Romance, a three-part series for BBC Four, was based on the romantic novels and sought to uncover the forces shaping our very British idea of 'happily ever after' and how our feelings have been affected by social, political and cultural ideas. [16]

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In 2016, Worsley presented the three-part documentary Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley in January and Lucy Worsley: Mozart's London Odyssey in June. [17] In September 2016, she was filming an upcoming series A Very British History for BBC Four. [18] In December she presented and appeared in dramatised accounts of the three-part BBC series Six Wives with Lucy Worsley. In 2017, she presented a three-part series entitled British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley, debunking historical views of the WarsoftheRoses, the GloriousRevolution and the BritishoccupationofIndia. [19] a b c Woods, Judith (13 April 2011). "DrLucyWorsley:'I'mjustanhistorianwhowanderedintoTV' ". Daily Telegraph. Archived from theoriginal on 24 June 2012 . Retrieved 1 April 2013. Four-part series (April 2012). Hosted by GilesCoren, co-presented with JamesWong, AlexLanglands& AlysFowler. [37]In April 2016, Worsley published her debut children's novel, Eliza Rose, about a young noble girl in a Tudor Court. [24] [25] In 2017, Worsley published a biography of JaneAusten titled Jane Austen at Home: A Biography. [26] In 2011, Worsley presented the four-part television series If Walls Could Talk, exploring the history of British homes, from peasants' cottages to palaces; and the three-part series Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency. In 2012 she co-presented the three-part television series Antiques Uncovered, with antiques and collectibles expert MarkHill, [13] and (broadcast at the same time) Harlots, Housewives and Heroines, a three-part series on the lives of women after the Civil War and the RestorationofCharlesII. [14] Later that year she presented a documentary on DorothyHartley's Food in England as part of the BBC Four "Food and Drink" strand. Souden, David; Dolman, Brett; foreword by HRHThePrinceofWales (2008). The Royal Palaces of London. Merrell Publishers. ISBN 978-1858944234.

A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Obsession A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Obsession

LucyWorsleyuncoversthetruestoriesofVictorianwomenaccusedofmurderinanewpodcastandseries". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre . Retrieved 13 March 2022.Owens, Mitchell (1 June 2012). "KensingtonPalace'sNewLook". Architectural Digest . Retrieved 6 September 2020. MiltonManor–LucyWorsley". LucyWorsley.com. Archived from theoriginal on 14 May 2014 . Retrieved 13 May 2014. The same point holds for Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver, probably the most famous English spinster detective after Miss Marple. Of the 32 Miss Silver mysteries, only three appeared before 1940. 29 of them appeared on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean between 1940 and 1961, that period when, according to Worsley, Graham Greene and James Bond (one an author, one a series character) made " elderly ladies...seem completely old hat." Apparently more than a few people in the forties and fifties liked old hats. This book has been written to accompany a television series of the same name and does, as a consequence jump around a little in subject matter. The book begins and ends with discussion of an essay - the first being, "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" by Thomas De Quincey and finishes with an appraisal of "The Decline of the English Murder" by George Orwell. This is not really about crime, as such, although many crimes are discussed - it is about how, especially since the nineteenth century, the British began to "enjoy and consume the idea of a murder." I especially admired Worsley's elegant use of two essays - Thomas De Quincey's "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (1827) and George Orwell's "Decline of the English Murder" (1946) - as the framing works between which her intellectual history unfolds.