If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of Your Home

Following on from the four-part BBC series and hit-selling book, If Walls Could Talk, Lucy explores our history of hygiene and homely habits over the past 800 years. 

Through the bedroom, bathroom, living room, and kitchen, Lucy Worsley explores what people actually did in bed, in the bath, at the table, and at the stove. From sauce-stirring to breast-feeding, teeth-cleaning to getting dressed & getting married, this talk will make you see your home with new eyes. We will also be answering why for centuries, people feared fruit, why medical people slept sitting up, and why the flushing toilet took two centuries to catch on. These questions as well as much more weird and wonderful questions you have never thought of will be covered.  

In case you have missed Lucy’s past shows including an illustrated talk of her book 'Jane Austen at Home’, as well as ’Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow’, both are available for purchase on-demand. 

If you would like to attend ‘If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of Your Home’, please see below for venues and dates: 

The Tacchi Morris Arts Centre in Taunton, Sunday 1st August 2021 at 2:30pm. https://www.tacchi-morris.com/lucy-worsley-if-walls-could-talk/ 

The Garrick Theatre in Taunton, Saturday 21st August 2021 at 2.30pm. https://www.lichfieldgarrick.com/whats-on/talk/lucy-worsley-if-walls-could-talk/2677 

The Gala Theatre in Durham, Tuesday 7th September 2021 at 7.30pm. https://galadurham.co.uk/galapost/lucy-worsley/ 

The Core in Solihull, Tuesday 14th September 2021 at 7.30pm. https://www.thecoretheatresolihull.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/lucy-worsley-if-walls-could-talk/24660/ 

The Blake Theatre in Monmouth, Friday 17th September 2021 at 7.30pm. https://www.theblaketheatre.org/fri-5-mar-2021-an-evening-with-lucy-worsley-obe/ 

The Connaught Theatre in Worthing, Sunday 19th September 2021 at 7.30pm. https://wtam.uk/events/lucy-worsley-if-walls-could-talk/