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Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

- Lucy Worsley
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Lucy Worsley
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Lots of items that survive from the past are high-status, valuable things that people have treasured.

If you read Victorian manuals, they're crazy - the amount of attention they devote to the perfect making of the bed, the cleanliness of the bed, the hygiene of the bed.

Everything is different about the world of the past, including the way we think and move, and you get a sense of that through the clothing.

I think you can be happy every day, if you are in the flow.

The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era.

I see bundling as a really important step in the journey toward marriage becoming a marriage of personal choice, rather than something you're just forced into by your parents for economic reasons, because you don't have to marry the man or woman after the night of bundling.

Medieval people didn't have special rooms for sleeping, just a single living space for everything. They put up with this lack of privacy partly for the lack of other options.

One thing I know, and any female presenters will know this, is don't reveal any body part or bend over because freaks will freeze-frame it and put it on their nasty messageboards.

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'.

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Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.

Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it.