Lucy Worsley (Reading, 52 years old) has been a familiar face on British television screens for a couple of decades, appearing dressed as Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, or an 18th-century courtesan. Her successful BBC documentaries have revived British history in an engaging and provocative way. An Oxford University history graduate, author of 19 books, and chief curator for 21 years of Historic Royal Palaces, her ever-present smile, her childlike mischievousness, and her shoulder-length hair always pinned to one side have served to camouflage a combative feminism when it comes to tackling history.

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There are hoaxes or half-truths that can change the course of a country’s history, and others that are simply met with indifference, because it’s not a time for revolutions. When Boris Johnson was a correspondent in Brussels for The Daily Telegraph, his story about the supposed — and false — effort of EU bureaucrats to ban prawn cocktail-flavored crisps, so popular among the British, became another wave in the Brexit storm. Another affront that had to be avoided.

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