141 Quotes by Lucy Worsley

What truly gives me joy is when I get a letter from a young woman who says they saw a programme, then read a book, then went to an evening class, and then studied a history degree at the Open University - and now I want your job.

Once you become a curator, you will inevitably end up on TV, if only to talk about your latest exhibition.

Because of the demands of court politics and the public position in which they lived, George I, George II and their children ended up doing bizarre and horrible things to each other, such as kidnapping a baby.

Staymakers and fashion designers have always wanted us to purchase new clothes, so they change their output year on year - we feel out of date, and feel that itch to buy.

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to you.

I want to look like I'm friendly, approachable and jolly.

One of the great privileges of my job as a curator is occasionally taking people up onto the roof of Hampton Court for a tour.

My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't just for professional historians.

There seems to me to be something admirable, indeed noble, about the people arguing over Richard III. They're doers rather than naysayers, romantics rather than realists, people looking for meaning rather than numbness.