Lucy Worsley explores our dark obsession with notorious crimes

By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Feb 2015, 10:50 BST
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A Very British Murder
An illustrated tour through the dark story of our fascination with murder is offered as historian Lucy Worsley takes to the stage with A Very British Murder at Worthing’s Connaught Theatre on Wednesday, February 4.

A historian and chief curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces, Lucy has covered the history of this very British obsession in a recent book and BBC TV series.

She will examine some notorious crimes and criminals, but she will also explain how murder became a form of middle-class entertainment through novels, plays, paintings, and the press.

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Starting with a horrific early nineteenth-century serial-killer in the East End of London, she’ll end with the drawing-room dramas of Agatha Christie.

Tickets for the production can be purchased on 01903 206 206 or www.worthingtheatres.co.uk.

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