What's your favourite period of history? Tell me in the comments! And follow 😃 so we can talk again 👋 I'm British historian Lucy Worsley! I believe the past is not dead. It is not even past. My job's to travel the world, researching history. (Yeah, I didn't know that was a job either 😉)

Friends, I’ve been on my travels again, which means a round of ‘Which Cathedral?’ for you. Which cathedral is this??

TOP NIGHT OUT

Yes, that picture bears absolutely no resemblance at all to Jack the Ripper. But I’m fascinated by the fact that if you ask AI to generate a picture of him, every single model does it extremely quickly and confidently and with very little variation between results.

I’ve been in Cambridge (thanks so much for your time if you came to my talk!) which means I have a Cambridge version of ‘Which College?’ for you to play. It’s a college whose archives I visited for my PhD research back in the day. Do you know … which college … this is?!

I’m slightly nonplussed by a family member asking me if I can please keep my witch’s hat somewhere other than the corner of our living room. Doesn’t everyone keep their witch’s hat in the corner of the living room?

If you were to take the cost of my labour into account the value of each single cherry tomato should be £12.50. But the satisfaction of finally getting to gorge on them is priceless.

This apparently meant they thought they could go on happily growing leaves and not bother with the fruit. Treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em keen. After cutting back on watering, I now have almost too many tomatoes.

After a very sloooow start, my tomatoes are finally getting down to business and going red. I’ve been told they might have been tardy because I watered them too assiduously during the hot spell.

In or out? I've been playing this game with some of history's most extraordinary monarchs — and you might notice I look suspiciously familiar in a few of these pictures. Purely a coincidence, I'm sure. My new book QUEENS AND KINGS is my love letter to the rulers who fascinated and frustrated me.

I think the world needs to know about these SOCKS WITH BERTIE THE CAT’S FACE ON THEM! Thanks to my friend Katherine for a wonderful gift.

Includes a rather scandalous sighting of a lady detective’s ankles too.