Suzannah Lipscomb
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Suzannah Lipscomb | |
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| Born | Surrey, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Nonsuch High School Epsom College Lincoln College, University of Oxford Balliol College, University of Oxford |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | New College of the Humanities |
| Website | suzannahlipscomb |
Suzannah Lipscomb is a British historian, academic and broadcaster specialising in the 16th century.
Early and personal life
Lipscomb was educated at Nonsuch High School for Girls,[1] and at Epsom College,[1] where she is now a governor.[2] She then attended Lincoln College at the University of Oxford where she was awarded a double first class honours degree in Modern History and a Masters in Historical Research.[3][4] She then won the Jowett Senior Scholarship to Balliol College, University of Oxford, from where she was awarded a doctorate in history.[3][5] Her doctoral supervisor was Robin Briggs, All Souls College, University of Oxford.[4]
Whilst studying at Oxford University she taught at the university's Middle Eastern Dancing school.[6]
Lipscomb lives in Barnes, London.[7]
Awards
In 2011 Lipscomb was awarded a Wellcome Trust People Award of £28,000,[8] and an Arts & Humanities Research Council-sponsored KTP Award, "Humanities for the Creative Economy".[9]
In 2012 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[10] and she received the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference.[11]
Academic career
In early 2007 Lipscomb became a Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace, working on the new visitor experience in the Tudor Palace to mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne in 2009.[3] In 2010 she became a Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia.[12] She moved to London to take up a post as Convenor and Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at New College of the Humanities in 2011, where she is currently employed.[5]
TV career
Lipscomb co-presented I Never Knew That About Britain for ITV.[13]
She wrote and presented Henry and Anne: the lovers who changed history for Channel 5.[14]
She wrote and presented Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home,[15] New Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home,[16][17] and Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home.[18] for BBC4.
She contributed to episodes of The Secret Life Of: for the Yesterday Channel[19] and episodes of Time Team, Series 20, for Channel 4.[20]
With Joe Crowley she presented the six episodes of Bloody Tales of Europe and the three episodes of Bloody Tales of the Tower for National Geographic Channel.[21][22]
Publications
Lipscomb contributes a regular column to History Today,[23] and has written articles for BBC History Magazine,[24] and The Daily Telegraph.[25]
- Henry VIII: 500 Facts, by Brett Dolman, Suzannah Lipscomb, Lee Prosser, David Souden and Lucy Worsley. Historic Royal Palaces, 2009. ISBN 978-1-873993-12-5.
- 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII, Lion Hudson, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7459-5365-6.
- A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England, Ebury, Random House, 2012. ISBN 978-0-091-94484-1. Published in the United States as A Journey Through Tudor England, by Pegasus Books, July 2013. ISBN 978-1-60598-460-5.
- Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance, co-edited with Thomas Betteridge, Ashgate, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4094-1185-7.
She is currently writing a book on the lives of women in sixteenth-century France.[3][5]
References
- ^ a b "About". Suzannah Lipscomb. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ Epsom College. "Governing Body at Epsom College". Epsomcollege.org. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ a b c d http://suzannahlipscomb.com/about
- ^ a b http://www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/uploads/files/09Imprint_ForWebsite.pdf
- ^ a b c https://www.nchum.org/faculty/dr-suzannah-lipscomb
- ^ http://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/oct/19/health.lifeandhealth
- ^ Nathanson, Hannah (6 December 2013). "Suzannah Lipscomb's My London". Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
- ^ "People Award Summaries" (PDF). Wellcome.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
- ^ "Henry VIII - Arts & Humanities Research Council". Ahrc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "Fellows of the Royal Historical Society (L)" (PDF). Royalhistoricalsociety.org. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
- ^ "Sixteenth Century Society & Conference". Sixteenthcentury.org. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/view/divisions/HIS.html#group_L
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Never_Knew_That_About_Britain
- ^ http://www.historyextra.com/feature/henry-viii-and-anne-boleyn-suzannah-lipscomb-dispels-myths-about-lovers-who-changed-history
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rp5hh
- ^ "BBC Four - Hidden Killers, Series 1, The Victorian Home, Hidden Killers: The Victorian Home - preview". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/50/hidden-killers.html
- ^ "BBC Four - Hidden Killers, Series 1, The Edwardian Home, Hidden Killers: The Edwardian Home - preview". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Watch The Secret Life Of... TV Online | Free Full Episodes | Yesterday Channel". Yesterday.uktv.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "Time Team - Historian Suzannah Lipscomb Describes Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk". Timeteamdigital.com. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "Bloody Tales Of The Tower - National Geographic Channel - UK". natgeotv.com. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Bloody Tales - National Geographic Channel - UK". Natgeotv.com. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "Practice Makes Perfect". History Today. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ History Weekend. "BBC History Magazine". History Weekend. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ Lipscomb, Suzannah (16 October 2012). "Booker Prize 2012: Mantel's tale drips with the often putrid scents of the Tudor age". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
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