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Christie, Agatha 1890-1976 Christmas Great Britain Monarchy Europe History Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain Albert 1819-1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1819-1901 Royal houses Royal houses Europe History Royal houses Great Britain History VIII, King of England Henry 1491-1547Worsley, Lucy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LUCWorsley, Lucy
Summary: "Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
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Summary: Lucy Worsley explores locations important to royal history and attempts to sort out facts from fiction about the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LUCWorsley, Lucy.
Summary: A portrait of a 17-century nobleman, his household, and the dramatic decades surrounding the English Civil War. William Cavendish, courageous and cultured, embodied the image of a cavalier. His passions were architecture, horses, and women. And, along with the courtly world of King Charles I and his cavaliers, he was doomed. General of the king's army in the north during the Civil War, defeated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.06 WORWorsley, Lucy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2024
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Summary: Murder a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very English obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crim 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 WORSummary: Lucy Worsley brings to life key events in European royal history, covering: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and England's parting of ways with Catholic Europe; the Regency, and the reasons that George III reliquished power; the Russian Revolution, revealing that the Czar had actually been deposed by an uprising that had preceded the October Revolution of 1917.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LUCSummary: Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley travels back in time to the Tudor Court of England's Henry VIII to witness some of the most dramatic moments in the lives of his six wives. Combining drama based on eyewitness accounts and historical sources with Lucy's own contemporary historical commentary, it is these women's stories that Lucy sets out to uncover, witness, and explore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dr. Lucy Worsley explores the royal wardrobes of our kings and queens over the last 400 years, from Elizabeth I to the present Queen Elizabeth II, explaining how the royal wardrobe is a carefully orchestrated piece of theater managed by the royals themselves to control the right image and project the right message to their subjects. Royal fashion is, and always has been, as much about politics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TALSummary: Lucy Worsley re-stages the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, including the most important elements of the ceremony and the celebrations, scouring archival materials and Queen Victoria's diaries for the details. Lucy also tells the story of Victoria and Albert's courtship and engagement as she reveals how this one extraordinary event helped to invent modern marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICSummary: Lucy Worsley recreates how Christmas was celebrated during the age of Henry VIII, eating, drinking, singing, dancing and partying as people did 500 years ago. On each of the traditional twelve days of Christmas, Lucy reveals a different aspect of the festivities, uncovering fresh insights into the Tudor mind and casting a captivating new light on Christmas itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020