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    tomholmberg
    Nov 13, 2020

    Lucy Worsley Goes Too Far

    in General Discussions

    Now she's thrown shade on Wellington. Oh, the horror!


    Historian Lucy Worsley says the Battle of Waterloo was a victory for Europe, it’s time this broadside at Wellington’s triumph met its Waterloo


    "It was Napoleon who fought for ‘Europe’, not Wellington."



    www.dailymail.co.uk
    DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The battle was a victory for Europe
    DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The date was June 18, 1815. At Quatre Bras, a few miles from the Belgian village of Waterloo, 19-year-old Private Matthew Clay was close to despair.


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    david Tomlinson
    Nov 17, 2020

    I don't watch a Worsley production for much serious insight, more a basic primer and a little light relief. However, I sometimes find her constant dressing up a bit distracting. I get the impression she is a frustrated actor, so perhaps Cambridge and the footlights should have been more her thing?


    All history, and particularly popular history, uses the lens of modern society. Perhaps therefore her and Dominics comments should be seen in the light of the Brexit schism.

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    David Hollins
    Nov 13, 2020

    https://youtu.be/qt3eyeO0R94

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    David Hollins
    Nov 13, 2020

    I thought you were going to say she had dressed up as N and ponced about at Waterloo. Merde! Fortunately, the second of the three populist clowns has just met his Waterloo - just one to go (as Wellington might have said).


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    tomholmberg
    Nov 13, 2020
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    "I thought you were going to say she had dressed up as N and ponced about at Waterloo."


    I'd watch that, but more likely she'd ponce about as a British aide-de-camp. That seems more up her usual SOP.


    https://twitter.com/PHMMcr/status/1327235922711244801/photo/2


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    Maggie Scott
    Nov 13, 2020

    Nothing attempting to link Lucy Worsley with "history" is worth a farthing. She is no historian.

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    Maggie Scott
    Nov 15, 2020
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    @tomholmberg I don't "hate" Ms. Lucy. I simply find her annoying and superficial.

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    tomholmberg
    Nov 15, 2020
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    @Maggie Scott She's "cute", but maybe in small doses.

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    Rob Wolters
    Nov 16, 2020
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    @Maggie Scott

    I read she is Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces as well. Clearly she is an historian, just not to your liking. If it's on Wikipedia it's not necessarily wrong. Do you know these claims to be false? Otherwise I will assume they are correct.

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    Alfred Brans
    Nov 13, 2020

    Historian Lucy Worsley says the Battle of Waterloo was a victory for Europe, it’s time this broadside at Wellington’s triumph met its Waterloo


    is not the same as:


    DOMINIC SANDBROOK: As historian Lucy Worsley says the battle was a victory for Europe, it’s time this broadside at Wellington’s triumph met its Waterloo


    Or do I misunderstand it.


    I got the impression that Dominic while aiming the left, shoots his right foot, by having so many wrongs.


    I would like to propose: Wellington decided the outcome of the war, not the british. Without Wellington they didn't manage to win a single enterprise on main land. TOTAL DISASTER (as Trump would phrase it) from 1793 to 1814.

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    David Hollins
    Nov 14, 2020
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    @tomholmberg Interesting that it is Sandbrook, who has started this idea of Wellington sending a “cable” to London - Worsley only talks about a “description” and implies the sending of a written message.

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    tomholmberg
    Nov 15, 2020
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    @david.a.hollins Why didn't Wellington just Zoom?

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    Hans - Karl Weiß
    Nov 15, 2020
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    @Alfred Brans



    The plain fact is, Waterloo was a British victory.

    Yes trendy for Brexit - whoever still insists of such a point of view shows clearly his agenda behind it.



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    john fortune
    Nov 13, 2020

    Lucy Worsley..... Daily Mail.... Nothing to see. Move on

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    tomholmberg
    Nov 13, 2020
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    You forgot Sandbrook...

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    john fortune
    Nov 13, 2020
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    @tomholmberg Actually, no.

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