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,^[2] and at Epsom College,^[2] where she is now a governor.^[3] She then went to Lincoln College and Balliol College at the University of Oxford, and was awarded a doctorate in history.^[4][5]

Lipscomb lives in Barnes, London.^[6]

Academic and publishing career

Between 2007 and 2010 she was a Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace.^[7] In 2010 she became a Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of East Anglia.^[8] She is now Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at the New College of the Humanities.^[9]

In 2011 Lipscomb was awarded a Wellcome Trust People Award of £28,000,^[10] and an Arts & Humanities Research Council-sponsored KTP Award, "Humanities for the Creative Economy".^[11]

In 2012 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.^[12] and she received the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference,^[13] and a Museums Association Museums & Heritage Award for Excellence in Education for "All the King’s Fools" at Hampton Court Palace.^[14]

Lipscomb contributes a regular column to History Today,^[15] and has written articles for BBC History Magazine,^[16][17] and The Daily Telegraph.^[18]

TV career

Lipscomb co-presented I Never Knew That About Britain, for ITV (2014).

She wrote and presented Henry and Anne: the lovers who changed history for Channel 5.^[19]

She wrote and presented New Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home,^[20] and Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home,^[21] and Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home for BBC Four.^[22][23]

She contributed to five episodes of The Secret Life Of: for the Yesterday Channel^[24] and four episodes of Time Team, Series 20, for Channel 4.^[25]

With Joe Crowley she presented Bloody Tales of Europe and Bloody Tales of the Tower for National Geographic Channel.^{[26] [27]} Bloody Tales of the Tower is also being televised on Channel 5 during May 2014. ^[28]

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.^[29]
• 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII, Lion Hudson, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7459-5365-6.^[30]
• A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England, Ebury, Random House, 2012. ISBN 978-0-091-94484-1.^[31] Published in the United States as A Journey Through Tudor England, by Pegasus Books, July 2013. ISBN 978-1-60598-460-5.^[32]
• Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance, co-edited with Thomas Betteridge, Ashgate, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4094-1185-7.^[33] Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley has identified this as her book of the year for 2013.^[34]