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Kate Williams
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
Kate Williams
Trials
Thought
Devil
Skin
Unnatural
Colour
Most
Witch
Particularly
Redheads
Were
Deathly
Persecuted
Which
Centuries
Fifteenth
European
Pale
Associated
Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.
Kate Williams
Love
Home
Fire
Few
September
Out
Would
London
Restoration
Investigate
Put
Buildings
Go
Histories
Burned
Little
Lane
Now
Pudding
I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
Kate Williams
Time
You
Man
Men
Charisma
About
Seems
Never
Talk
Looks
Judged
Said
Always
Got
His
Wonder
Discussed
Where
Wherever
Your
Appearance
Ever
As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
Kate Williams
Spend
Books
Gazing
Latin
Would-Be
Archives
Days
French
Documents
Historians
Account
Train
Handwriting
Arts
Letters
Early
Medieval
Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.
Kate Williams
Library
Building
Own
Others
Local
Record
Some
Archives
Offices
Wherever
Your
Treasure
Museum
Unless I'm asked to dress up in a costume, TV shows prefer a clean, modern look, so I've developed a wardrobe full of plain, bright colours. If it's an outdoors job, I just wear big jumpers.
Kate Williams
Job
Big
Unless
TV
TV Shows
Outdoors
Wear
Dress
Dress-Up
Costume
Clean
Colours
Developed
Look
Up
Modern
Just
Wardrobe
Plain
Prefer
Asked
Full
Shows
Bright
British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.
Kate Williams
Passion
Clothes
Tea
Our
Tried
No Desire
Had
Unstoppable
However
Sell
Chinese
Them
Much
Desire
British
The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
Kate Williams
Property
Church
First
British Museum
Our
Rather
Real
Than
Public
Monarch
British
Museum
Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
Kate Williams
Looking
Else
Papers
Telling
Phrase
Someone
Archives
Through
Missed
Days
Come
Piles
Revelations
Private
Historical
Even
Homes
Letter
Letters
My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
Kate Williams
Old
Meet
Unmarried
Until
She
Welsh
Quite
Grandfather
Grandmother
Early
One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
Kate Williams
Life
Me
Woman
Better
Real Life
Think
Fatter
Television
Onscreen
Observed
Lights
Look
Real
Came
Lecture
Up
Than
Much
I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
Kate Williams
History
People
Amazing
Young
Enjoy
Incredible
Way
TV
Window
Particular
Offers
Young People
Really
Watching
Watching Tv
Presenting
When Elizabeth II was crowned - the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest - the world lit up in her favour.
Kate Williams
World
Favour
Crowned
Since
Female
Up
Norman
Sixth
Lit
Monarch
Conquest
Her
Elizabeth
Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
Kate Williams
Change
Will
Power
Relevant
One Thing
Stay
More
Over
Wishes
Come
Years
Certain
Monarchy
Thing
Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.
Kate Williams
Buy
Our
High
Throughout
Prices
Cheaply
Bought
Countries
Empire
Goods
Subject
Century
Compelled
Britain
Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
Kate Williams
Nurse
Characters
Would
Dreamed
Horrible
Through
Never
Redheads
Passed
Wet
Precious
Offspring
Milk
Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.
Kate Williams
Daily
History
People
Key
Soil
Understanding
Analysis
Our
Has-Been
Archaeology
Tend
Mainstream
Goods
Well
Documents
Stick
Been
Skeletons
Migration
Grave
Lives
Daily Lives
I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
Kate Williams
Myself
Considered
Rather
Like
Look
Read
Always
Odd
Commenting
Tweets
Appearance
One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.
Kate Williams
History
Problems
Big
Lust
Elsewhere
Our
Has-Been
Enthusiastic
About
Throughout
Consumer
Goods
Been
Overseas
Friends
Big Problems
After
Produce
Less
Things
Buying
Britain
I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
Kate Williams
World
National
Maritime
Collections
Borrowing
Part
Over
Revelation
Am
Exhibition
Hamilton
Planning
Team
Amount
Museum
Museums
I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
Kate Williams
Women
Queen
Made
Seen
Country
Way
Those
Hoped
Born
Written
Leaders
How
Were
Male
Up
Close
Victoria
Heir
Who
Elizabeth
Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
Kate Williams
History
Nine
Way
Secure
Has-Been
Only
Throne
Throughout
George
Been
Children
Victoria
Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
Kate Williams
Christmas
Passion
Before
White
Machine
Weddings
Both
Dates
Were
Huge
Celebrations
Times
Victoria
Victorian
Low-Key
Her
Britain
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