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Woman About Town

Brought to book

THE BBC RECENTLY REPEATEDa documentary series I made some time ago, which provided a lovely opportunity to hear from members of the history community. One lady emailed under the suggestive subject line “inappropriate handling”. She continued:

I’m just watching your mini-series To Kill a King and I cannot believe you pawing King Charles 1’s book in the library.

Surely the librarian (and everyone else who has seen this) was appalled seeing your mishandling of such a historic book and leaving your greasy prints all

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