How Did Lucy Worsley Get The Talent

Some love her apparently.

I hate her. I am interested in the subjects she covers but it's like she's playing at being what people think a historian acts like.

She's an ugly desperate lisping cunt, who has to dress up in period costume.

Off with her fucking head!

We have had too many Lucy Worsley threads lately.

I generally find her charming, but she can get a bit to twee. Janina Ramirez is similar (even though their personal styles are so different).

Overall I prefer it when the presenters on BBC history docus don't push themselves into the center of attention as much; I thought the recent series on Charles I. was excellent.

I find her rhotacism unfawgivaboo.

Lucy Fucking Worsley is not Fucking boring!

I enjoy her TV shows.

OP, you really need to get life if your spend time thinking of Lucy Fucking Worsley

Yes OP, you need to get a life and spend your time thinking of Tatum O’Neal, Megan Markel, Meghan McCain, ghosts, real housewives, Madonna, Brook Laitch, Olivia DeHavilland, Ryan Lanfilisi, Faye Dunaway, Brook Shields, George Michael, Susan Sarandon’s daughter, Bea Benedaret, Drake & Josh, Betty White, Donny Osmond.........not some costumed person with rhotacism currently appearing on PBS every 2 days this past month.

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Ugh yes, this woman can make the most exciting historic events boring. Is she related to someone in publishing, broadcasting or the royal family because I can’t imagine why anyone would’ve initially hired her otherwise

Quite pleased with herself

I’m not a fan of her costumes, but she’s otherwise inoffensive to me. I enjoy her shows.

Most people would find Lucy more charming and adorable and slender than this bitter OP.

OH, hi David Starkey.

R8 - You left out Vivian Vance!

Among Brit female historians on TV, I prefer Bettany Hughes.

I'm an art historian of the same and overlapping subjects. It's not so much that I disagree with what she says, only with what she chooses to say and the boring fucking way she says it.

She gives every indication of having come to the study of history after being turned down by every drama school in London. Faced with that pile of rejection, she had to study something.

If she would get a speech therapist, she could learn to use her upper lip when speaking. That alone would improve a great deal.

Then she needs to discipline herself to stay OUT of the costumes. She's a fucking awful presenter. There must be somewhere in the UK an academic library with a large research section generally off-limits to the public where she could earn a decent living. Find it and put her there.

[quote] If she would get a speech therapist, she could learn to use her upper lip when speaking.

She can’t. It’s quite stiff.

She doesn't seem to give any thoughtful analysis of historical events that might provide some new insight, let alone give a more nuanced perspective of certain time periods, it's just knee-jerk PC shit being applied to the Tudors, the Plantagenets, for instance. The one about Anne Boleyn had me rolling my eyes.

Her costumes are cute but her smug LOOK AT ME shtick is annoying as fuck. I tuned her out after a while. Better to read a good book of even historical fiction if you want entertainment mixed in with some facts.

Does she have a Plantagenet face?

Many of you have missed the point. She is a frau's historian. You wouldn't believe how many women in the US want to dress up like her and have "high tea" and experience life in Elizabethan times. She totally positions herself to the frau market and senior citizens who think her schtick is cute. She is the tv version of a tourist trap like the London Dungeon.

[quote] There must be somewhere in the UK an academic library with a large research section generally off-limits to the public where she could earn a decent living. Find it and put her there

She already has quite a good day job - she's chief curator of the Historic Royal Palaces.

I am a historian and I think the topics she covers are interesting. I tried watching her shows but I can't make it through any of them. Her affect is grating.

Worsley is definitely a frau's historian but the vast majority of history series are directed to male viewers obsessed with WWII or some dumb military shit. They are just as bad. Then there is the Ken Burns genre of saccharine American history documentaries. Those are also unwatchable.

The two best history documentary series are The World at War and Russa's War: Blood on the Snow. The former is narrated by Laurence Olivier and the latter by Nigel Hawthorne. I don't know of any other history series that actually put the history up front and center.

R15 Bettany Hughes is often described as "thinking man's crumpet".

I love Lucy

WTF happened to Mary Beard? She looks like someone inflated her like a balloon and then deflated her about half way. And punched her in the teeth a few times.

That's Dame Mary Beard to you.

She’s bores the hell out of me and I love history.

I wike her.

I wike her too.

I LOVE HERRRRRR

I like her and REALLY like her history shows.

I can not watch anything with her because of her distinctive lisp.

I read somewhere that in her series, "History of the English home", she farted when she went to sleep with those 5 kids in "history of the bedroom". Reading that made me laugh! She is so fucking corny.