"Question whose stories history actually records After spending a documentary exploring Georgian excess, presenter Lucy Worsley reflects from Bath's Royal Crescent that the vivid, rollicking accounts we inherit are almost entirely from the wealthy: "for every one of them, how many stories don't we know? The poor people, the sex workers, the people who were ill, the people who never got a chance to tell their stories, people of color, queer people — their voices are so important." This is a direct challenge to how we consume any historical or cultural narrative: the stories that survive and dominate are rarely representative. When forming opinions based on the past — or on any curated record — it pays to ask first whose experiences are systematically absent. Source: Lucy Worsley, History Hit, Georgian Vice: Gin, Opium & Snuff"