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Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb is a British academic and media historian specializing in the sixteenth century. After attending school at Nonsuch High School and Epsom College she read Early Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford from where she received a Double First, followed by a distinction for her Masters in Historical Research. She was then awarded the Jowett Senior Scholarship by Balliol College where she read for her DPhil, which she was awarded in 2009. In 2006-7 Lipscomb was a Royal Historical Society Marshall Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Between 2007 and 2010 she was a Research Curator at Historic Royal Palaces. In 2010 she began teaching as a lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. In 2011 she was appointed to be Subject Area Convenor for History at the New College of the Humanities with responsibility for recruiting, leading, training and developing the college's History teaching staff.

Media appearances

Lipscomb has made many TV and Radio appearance including:BBC's The One Show, GMTV, Channel 4's Time Team, the History Channel and CTV's live royal wedding coverage. Lipscomb also presented The Essay - Henry, King of Kings on BBC Radio 3 in April 2009.

Selected works

  • 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII (Lion Hudson, 2009)
  • 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)

Early Life

Suzannah played the young Beatrice to Stella Gonet‘s role in The House of Eliott in 1991, and Emma Oakfield in Witchcraft directed by Peter Sasdy in 1992 alongside actors Peter McEnery, Lisa Harrow, Alan Howard, Clive Wood, Georgia Slowe, Jason Flemyng and Judy Campbell. She gave up acting when she grew too tall to be a child actor.

After leaving school she travelled widely in India, speaks Hindi and plans a further illustrated book about her memoirs of these travels.


References

  1. ^ http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/People/Academic/Suzannah+Lipscomb UEA:Suzannah Lipscomb (Accessed Oct 9, 2011)
  2. http://www.nchum.org/who-we-are/subject-convenors-and-other-teaching-staff New College of the Humanities: Subject Area Convenors (Accessed Oct 9, 2011)
  3. http://suzannahlipscomb.com/ Suzannah Lipscomb personalwebsite (Accessed Oct 9, 2011)
  4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9608000/9608074.stm BBC:Radio 4, Today - Henry VIII's 'disability therapy' (Accessed Oct 9, 2011)
  5. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00js9gw BBC Radio 3:The Essay - Henry, King of Kings - Henry - 1536 broadcast Fri 24 Apr 2009 and Fri 9 Apr 2010
  6. Wooding, L. (September 04, 2009). Suzannah Lipscomb - 1536 - The year that changed Henry VIII. Tls, the Times Literary Supplement, 24.
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