Lucy Worsley’s style of hist-o-rama is by now well known enough to be an open goal for parody. Essentially she gets to play dress-up and wear silly hats, while guiding us through history like a hyperactive primary schoolteacher playing Little Bo Peep.
Her role-play can be irritating when you know something about the subject already – hence various spats across the years with self-styled “serious” historians who think that things like washing Tudor linen in urine to prove a point is daft. But when it came to the suffragettes, a subject about which I knew no more than the railing-chaining and horse-trampling that I imagine is most people’s two-liner, Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley (BBC One) brought...