Lucy Worsley Investigates - a great History lesson

Lucy Worsley Investigates is an investigative documentary that will make you look at History classes differently. Forget the endless boring lessons. Here, the focus is on the mystery and actual investigation work.

In this first season (I hope there will be more), Lucy Worsley investigates 4 dramatic chapters of British History. If you don't know much about it, don't worry, it is well-explained and put into context. It is like picking up a random of facts and happenings and giving them real meaning.

Plague, witches, mental health, and murderer

In these 4 episodes, Lucy Worsley investigates the Black Death, the witch trials, how mental health evolved in the last couple of centuries, and the murder of the Princes in the tower. It is all well documented and narrated as a great entertaining story. Fascinating!

You do not always have complete answers to the questions, though. For example, in the princes' episode, we never have a definite explanation for what happened or if the bodies in the Abbey are really theirs. In the end, we only have assumptions - very well-documented ones. Nonetheless, watching and observing everything she does to get answers is still impressive.

A Modern Perspective

When you read historical documents, especially the ones from medieval times, you'll find a lot of mysticism and ignorance attached to it. It isn't easy to separate reality from the beliefs of the contemporaries who wrote those (now the only) sources of information.

Lucy Worsley Investigates focuses on giving a modern perspective on these episodes, studied plenty of times in different ages. It makes you feel more connected with what you're learning and is very entertaining—a series to follow.

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