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Suzannah Lipscomb is a historian and academic, specialising in the 16th century, who has written and appeared in a number of television series about British history.

Life and career

Lipscomb was educated at Nonsuch High School for Girls and Lincoln and Balliol colleges of Oxford University. She was awarded her D.Phil. from Oxford in 2009 with a dissertation entitled Maids, Wives, and Mistresses : Disciplined Women in Reformation Languedoc. While completing her dissertation she also worked as a curator at Hampton Court Palace where she was responsible for organising a series of exhibitions held throughout the spring and summer of 2009 to mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII of England's accession to the throne. She was a lecturer in history at the University of East Anglia prior to joining the faculty at New College of the Humanities in 2012.

Awards

In 2011 Lipscomb was awarded an Arts & Humanities Research Council-sponsored KTP Award, "Humanities for the Creative Economy".

In 2012 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

TV career

Lipscomb co-presented I Never Knew That About Britain, for ITV (2014). The series was described as "too busy adorning the obvious with bunting to uncover anything truly fascinating".

She wrote and presented Henry and Anne: the lovers who changed history for Channel 5. The Telegraph called it "dumbed-down tommyrot."

She wrote and presented Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home for BBC Four, as well as the follow up shows New Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home, and Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home. Clive James gave Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home a positive review, "principally because Ms Lipscomb was almost as fascinating as her subject."

She contributed to five episodes of The Secret Life Of: for the Yesterday Channel. The series was designed to give "tabloid treatment of historical icons" and includes an episode where Lipscomb and co-host Lucy Worsley "revel in raunchy titbits" about Henry VIII's love life. Lipscomb also contributed to Time Team, Series 20, for Channel 4.

With Joe Crowley she presented Bloody Tales of Europe and Bloody Tales of the Tower for National Geographic Channel.

Publications

• 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.

References

1. British Library. uk.bl.ethos.517223. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
2. Little, Reg (28 May 2009). "New face of Tudor history". Oxford Times. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
3. Gentlemen, Amelia (26 October 2013). "The £54,000 degree: how well is AC Grayling's college doing?". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
4. "Henry VIII - Arts & Humanities Research Council". Ahrc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
5. "Fellows of the Royal Historical Society (L)" (PDF). Royalhistoricalsociety.org. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
6. Jones, Ellen E. (4 March 2014). "Review: I Never Knew That About Britain". The Independent. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
7. "Episode 1 | Henry & Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History | Channel 5". channel5.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
8. Simons, Jake Wallis (20 February 2014). "Henry & Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History, Channel 5, review". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
9. "BBC Four - Hidden Killers, Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home". Bbc.co.uk. 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
10. "BBC Four - Hidden Killers, Series 1, The Victorian Home, Hidden Killers: The Victorian Home - preview". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
11. ^ James, Clive (17 April 2014). "Keeping up appearances" (review). Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
12. "BBC Four - Hidden Killers, Series 1, The Edwardian Home, Hidden Killers: The Edwardian Home - preview". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
13. "Watch The Secret Life Of... TV Online | Free Full Episodes | Yesterday Channel". Yesterday.uktv.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
14. Nathalie Atkinson (August 29, 2012). "History goes pop on The Secret Life Of …". National Post. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
15. James Gill. "The Secret Life Of". Radio Times. Retrieved 20 May 2014. {{cite news}}: Text "Series 1 - 1. The Secret Life of Henry VIII" ignored (help)
16. "Time Team - Historian Suzannah Lipscomb Describes Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk". Timeteamdigital.com. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
17. "Bloody Tales Of The Tower - National Geographic Channel - UK". natgeotv.com. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
18. "Bloody Tales - National Geographic Channel - UK". Natgeotv.com. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
19. Hilton, Lisa (3 November 2013). "The History Girls: meet the women building a bright future from the past". Daily Mail. Retrieved 20 May 2014.

External links

• Official website
• Suzannah Lipscomb at IMDb

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• Living people
• Academics of the University of East Anglia
• English historians
• People educated at Epsom College