Suzannah Lipscomb

Suzannah Lipscomb is a British academic, author and media historian specialising in the sixteenth century. She read Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford where she received a Double First class Honours degree, followed by a distinction for her Masters in Historical Research. She was awarded the Jowett Senior Scholarship by Balliol College where she read for her DPhil, which she was awarded in 2009.^[1] In 2006-7 Lipscomb was a Royal Historical Society Marshall Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. She was also shortlisted for the All Souls College fellowship in 2004. Between 2007 and 2010 she was a Research Curator at Historic Royal Palaces. In 2010 she joined the academic staff of the University of East Anglia as a Lecturer in Early Modern British History. In 2011 she was appointed to be Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at the New College of the Humanities.^[2][3][4]

Lipscomb is often to be seen and heard on TV and radio programmes such as: BBC's The One Show, GMTV, Channel 4's Time Team, BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme and the History Channel.^[5][2] She also presented CTV's live royal wedding coverage of the wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton with royal biographer Christopher Warwick, comedienne Tracey Ullman and anchor Lisa LaFlamme.^[6] She wrote and read The Essay Henry, King of Kings on BBC Radio 3 in April 2009.^[7] In 2011 she completed a three-part series on the Tower of London with Joe Crowley for National Geographic.

Selected works

• 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII (Lion Hudson, 2009)^[8]
• Henry VIII: 500 Facts (Historic Royal Palaces 2009) with Brett Dolman and Lee Prosser, David Souden and Lucy Worsley. Edited by Sarah Kilby.
• A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England (Ebury, Random House, forthcoming 2012).
• Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance, co-edited with Prof. Thomas Betteridge (Ashgate forthcoming 2012).

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