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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. 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 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.

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, and the History Channel . 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 Ullmann and anchor Lisa LaFlamme. She wrote and read 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).
• Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance, co-edited with Prof. Thomas Betteridge (Ashgate forthcoming 2012).

References

1. http://suzannahlipscomb.com/ Suzannah Lipscomb personal website
2. ^ http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/People/Academic/Suzannah+Lipscomb UEA:Suzannah Lipscomb (Accessed Oct 9, 2011)
3. 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)
4. http://suzannahlipscomb.com/ Suzannah Lipscomb personalwebsite (Accessed Oct 9, 2011)
5. 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)
6. 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
7. Wooding, L. (September 04, 2009). Suzannah Lipscomb - 1536 - The year that changed Henry VIII. Tls, the Times Literary Supplement, 24.

• Academics of the University of East Anglia
• New College of the Humanities
• English historians
• Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford