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.

My ideal viewer is an 11-year-old girl who, like me, was once reading a book by Jean Plaidy and might be in the position of deciding what to make of the world and what to do with her life.

There's a big mistake that people make with history, which is to think that people in the past were just like us, but wearing crinolines. They lived in different worlds.