Suzannah Lipscomb

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Suzannah Rebecca Gabriella Lipscomb (born 1978) is a British historian, academic and broadcaster specialising in the sixteenth century.

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Education [edit]

Lipscomb was educated at Epsom College,[1] a co-educational boarding independent school in the town of Epsom in Surrey, followed by Lincoln College and Balliol College at the University of Oxford.

Life and career [edit]

Lipscomb has a doctorate in history from Balliol College, Oxford.[2] and [3]. Between 2007 and 2010 she was a Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace.[4] In 2010 she became a Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of East Anglia.[5] She is now Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at the New College of the Humanities.[6]

Lipscomb presented CTV's live royal wedding coverage of the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton in April 2011.[7]

She co-presented Bloody Tales of the Tower with Joe Crowley for National Geographic.[8] A second six-part Bloody Tales series aired in March 2013[9] Lipscomb also regularly appeared on Channel 4's Time Team in the 2013 series[10] and wrote and presented Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home for BBC4.[11]

Lipscomb regularly writes articles for History Today, the BBC History Magazine, and The Daily Telegraph.[12]

In December 2012 Lipscomb was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[13]

Selected works [edit]

  • 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII (Lion Hudson, 2009)[14]
  • A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England (Ebury, Random House, 2012).[15]
  • Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance, co-edited with Thomas Betteridge, Ashgate, 2013.[16]

References [edit]

  1. ^ http://www.epsomcollege.org.uk/news/2011-epsom-college-oxford-dinner-held-at-balliol-colleg
  2. ^ http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/suzannah-lipscomb/37/60b/488
  3. ^ http://www.nchum.org/faculty/dr-suzannah-lipscomb
  4. ^ "Historic Royal Palaces > Home > News and media > Press resources > Hampton Court Palace > Hampton Court Palace - press release archive > The Henry VIII talks at Hampton Court Palace". Hrp.org.uk. 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2013-04-04. 
  5. ^ http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/People/Academic/Suzannah+Lipscomb UEA:Suzannah Lipscomb (Accessed Oct 9, 2011)
  6. ^ New College of the Humanities: Subject Area Convenors (Accessed Oct 9, 2011)
  7. ^ CTV William and Kate: The Royal Wedding (Accessed 14 Oct 2011)
  8. ^ "About Bloody Tales Of The Tower Show - National Geographic Channel - UK". Natgeotv.com. Retrieved 2013-04-04. 
  9. ^ http://natgeotv.com/uk/bloody-tales
  10. ^ "Time Team - 4oD". Channel 4. Retrieved 2013-04-04. 
  11. ^ "Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home | Modern Television". Moderntv.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-04-04. 
  12. ^ Booker Prize. "Booker Prize 2012: Mantel’s tale drips with the often putrid scents of the Tudor age". Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-04-04. 
  13. ^ http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhsfellows-l.pdf
  14. ^ http://www.lionhudson.com/results.asp?NAT=false&SF1=keyword&ST1=1536+the+year+that+changed+henry+viii+by+suzannah+lipscomb
  15. ^ "> Suzannah Lipscomb". Ebury Publishing. 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2013-04-04. 
  16. ^ "Henry VIII and the Court by Thomas Betteridge and Suzannah Lipscomb". Ashgate.com. Retrieved 2013-04-04.