New Research with Lucy Worsley - Queen Victoria’s Library

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

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4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this mini-series on new research at our palaces, PhD student Gabrielle Fields joins Lucy Worsley to explore the life of Queen Victoria through the books she read.

Gabrielle’s PhD introduces a new lens through which to examine Queen Victoria through her reading materials. It ultimately aims to reveal Queen Victoria’s efforts to educate herself politically, her attempts at self-improvement, and crucially the way she chose to present herself to the
world.

This episode is part of a mini-series about new research at our palaces.

Read more about Queen Victoria's early biography.

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0:00.0	Hello listeners and welcome to the Historic World Palaces podcast.
0:07.0	I'm Lucy Worsley for a long time chief curator at Historic World Palaces and now a friend
0:14.0	at the charity. And welcome back to the new research at our Palace' mini-series, where I get to talk to our latest researchers
0:22.9	themselves. These are our PhD students. He'd been working with us to discover more about the
0:29.6	histories and stories from our palaces. You might not know this, but Historic World Palaces
0:33.8	is an independent research organisation that is kind of like a university and this research is fresh.
0:41.7	It's happening right now and it has the potential to change the way we think about the past.
0:48.2	So let's jump into some of the exciting new research from our palaces.
0:55.7	This time I'm so thrilled to be talking to Gabby Fields
1:00.2	and she is studying Queen Victoria and Queen Victoria's life in books.
1:06.1	More about that in a bit though.
1:08.5	Because first up, Gabby, can you tell me what a day is like for you as a PhD
1:14.6	student at Historic World Palaces? Historic World Palaces is a fabulous place to be a PhD student.
1:20.6	I am very lucky to call Hampton Court my office and have been for the past three years
1:26.6	and this involves all sorts of
1:29.8	constantly and always exciting things. So for example, yesterday before I even sat down at my desk,
1:36.7	I had seen a 1930s court dress from the RCDC and I had seen Tudor archaeology being uncovered
1:43.9	in Master Carpenter's Court.
1:45.0	So there's always something new and something really exciting that I get to see.
1:49.0	And all of this sort of feeds into my love for the research and it's just a wonderful place to work.
1:56.0	I think our listeners are going to know that the RCDC is the royal ceremonial dress collection.
2:02.3	And have you had the, I know that you've had the chance to, you know, explore collections items, haven't you?
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