About Suzannah
Dr Suzannah Lipscomb is Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at New College of the Humanities. She also holds a post as Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia.
Suzannah was educated at Epsom College and Lincoln College, Oxford. After taking a double first in Modern History and a distinction in her Masters in Historical Research, she won the Jowett Senior Scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, to read her D.Phil. in history, which she was awarded in 2009. In 2006-7, Suzannah was a Royal Historical Society Marshall Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research.
From 2007 to 2010, Suzannah was Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace (Historic Royal Palaces), and was one of the lead curators responsible for creating a new visitor experience in the Tudor Palace to mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne in 2009. She was employed through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Kingston University, sponsored by the AHRC. For her achievements during this time, Suzannah won the AHRC 2011 ‘Humanities in the Creative Economy’ Award.
In 2009, Suzannah also organized a series of high profile events, including ‘The Henry VIII Talks at Hampton Court Palace’ in association with History Today, and a major three-day international academic conference on Henry VIII and the Tudor Court. Suzannah is now a consultant to Historic Royal Palaces and an External Advisory Member on their Research Strategy Board.
In September 2010, Suzannah was appointed Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. In 2011, she was awarded a public engagement grant (People Award) from the Wellcome Trust to fund ‘All the King’s Fools’, a performance project in which actors with learning disabilities play the Tudor period’s ‘natural fools’ at Hampton Court Palace. This project has been shortlisted for a Museums + Heritage Award for Excellence. In October 2011, she took up her post as Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at New College of the Humanities.
Suzannah co-presented, with Joe Crowley, ‘Bloody Tales of the Tower’, a series that aired on National Geographic in April 2012. She has appeared on BBC’s The One Show, ITV’s GMTV, Channel 4‘s Time Team, Sky News Review and the History Channel. She commentated live on the Royal Wedding for CTV, presented BBC Radio 3’s The Essay, and has contributed to various publications and programmes, including The Sunday Telegraph, BBC History Magazine, History Today, and BBC Radio 4′s Today programme.
Suzannah’s latest book, A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England, was published by Ebury in March 2012. Suzannah is also the author of 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII (Lion Hudson, 2009),the co-author of Henry VIII: 500 Facts (Historic Royal Palaces, 2009), and co-editor of a forthcoming collection of essays, Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance, to be published by Ashgate in 2012. You can see a full list of her publications here.
Besides history, Suzannah’s other great love is India, a country she visits as frequently as possible to practice her (increasingly rusty) Hindi. She lives in London.
