Quotes About Lucy Worsley

I see it as my job to try to make history to be a popular thing. The longer I keep going the less weird it will be to be a female historian.

As I am straight up and down, I make a good flapper. One of the highlights of my life was dancing the Charleston with Len Goodman in a nightclub in a cream, Twenties-style dress; it was the nearest I'll ever get to appearing on 'Strictly'.

I've most liked dressing up as a flapper. I've been flappered twice. But I care not only about the clothes they wore but what they stood for. It's early-liberated, earning money, having the vote, their potential husband probably died in the war, that kind of independence.

History was the subject that didn't seem like work. It was enjoyable. That's why I was drawn to doing it really.