Suzannah Lipscomb | |
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Born | December 1978 Surrey, England |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Nonsuch High School for Girls Epsom College Lincoln College, Oxford Balliol College, Oxford |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | New College of the Humanities |
Doctoral advisor | Robin Briggs [1] |
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,[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]
She dedicated her 2012 book, A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England, to her husband Drake.[6]
Lipscomb lives in Barnes, London.[7]
Academic and publishing career
Between 2007 and 2010 she was a Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace.[8] In 2010 she became a Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of East Anglia.[9] She is now Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at the New College of the Humanities.[10]
In 2011 Lipscomb was awarded a Wellcome Trust People Award of £28,000,[11] and an Arts & Humanities Research Council-sponsored KTP Award, "Humanities for the Creative Economy".[12]
In 2012 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[13] and she received the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference,[14] and a Museums Association Museums & Heritage Award for Excellence in Education for "All the King’s Fools" at Hampton Court Palace.[15]
Lipscomb contributes a regular column to History Today,[16] and has written articles for BBC History Magazine,[17][18] and The Daily Telegraph.[19]
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.[20]
She wrote and presented New Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home,[21] and Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home,[22] and Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home for BBC Four.[23][24]
She contributed to five episodes of The Secret Life Of: for the Yesterday Channel[25] and four episodes of Time Team, Series 20, for Channel 4.[26]
With Joe Crowley she presented Bloody Tales of Europe and Bloody Tales of the Tower for National Geographic Channel.[27] [28] Bloody Tales of the Tower is also being televised on Channel 5 during May 2014. [29]
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.[30]
- 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII, Lion Hudson, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7459-5365-6.[31]
- A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England, Ebury, Random House, 2012. ISBN 978-0-091-94484-1.[32] Published in the United States as A Journey Through Tudor England, by Pegasus Books, July 2013. ISBN 978-1-60598-460-5.[33]
- Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance, co-edited with Thomas Betteridge, Ashgate, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4094-1185-7.[34] Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley has identified this as her book of the year for 2013.[35]
References
- ^ http://suzannahlipscomb.com/wp-content/uploads/Suzannah-Lipscomb-CV-20132.pdf
- ^ a b "About". Suzannah Lipscomb. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ Epsom College. "Governing Body at Epsom College". Epsomcollege.org. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "Suzannah Lipscomb - United Kingdom | LinkedIn". Uk.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "Dr Suzannah Lipscomb | NCH". Nchum.org. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ Lipscomb, Suzannah (2013-06-04). A Journey Through Tudor England: Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London to Stratford-upon-Avon and Thornbury Castle. Pegasus Books. pp. 2–. ISBN 9781453298909. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
- ^ Nathanson, Hannah (6 December 2013). "Suzannah Lipscomb's My London". Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
- ^ "The Real Story Of Henry VIII From Historians, Scholars & Novelists". Hrp.org.uk. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ name="uea">http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/People/Academic/Suzannah+Lipscomb UEA:Suzannah Lipscomb (Accessed 9 October 2011)
- ^ "New College of the Humanities | NCH". Nchum.org. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Awarded Institutions 2012". The Best in Heritage. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "Practice Makes Perfect". History Today. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "Suzannah Lipscomb's blog". History Extra. 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.
- ^ "Episode 1 | Henry & Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History | Channel 5". channel5.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
- ^ "BBC Four - Hidden Killers, Series 1, The Victorian Home, Hidden Killers: The Victorian Home - preview". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "BBC Four - Hidden Killers, Series 1, The Edwardian Home, Hidden Killers: The Edwardian Home - preview". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home". Moderntv.co.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ^ "BBC Four - Hidden Killers, Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home". Bbc.co.uk. 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "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.
- ^ http://www.channel5.com/shows/bloody-tales-of-the-tower
- ^ "Henry VIII 500 facts - Historic Royal Palaces online gift shop". historicroyalpalaces.com. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Ebury - All". Eburypublishing.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "Lion Hudson". Lion Hudson. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
- ^ "Suzannah Lipscomb | Pegasus Books". pegasusbooks.us. Retrieved 2014-01-20.
- ^ "Henry VIII and the Court by Thomas Betteridge and Suzannah Lipscomb". Ashgate.com. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ^ "Henry VIII and the Court – Lucy Worsley’s book of the year (2013) | Ashgate Publishing Blog". blog.ashgate.com. Retrieved 2014-01-20.