Shrine at Walsingham
Today I went to visit the shrine at Walsingham, as part of my research for my next book. This is all that remains of the medieval shrine where kings from Henry III to Henry VIII came on pilgrimage:
Mary Rose Museum article & podcast
After talking at the Mary Rose Museum on 3 March 2011, the Museum has featured an article based on my talk and a podcast interview with me on their website.
Lincoln College Dining Club
Looking forward to dinner tonight at the Lincoln College, Oxford Dining Club, meeting at the Cavalry and Guards’ Club in Piccadilly. I’m the after-dinner speaker!
The Wellcome Trust fund All the King’s Fools!
I was the historical advisor on All the King’s Fools, a disability arts history performance at Hampton Court Palace on 24-27 February 2011. Brian Logan from The Guardian interviewed me and wrote a feature about it. It was funded by The Arts Council, and was the pilot for a future…
Elizabeth at Cinema City
I’m giving a talk tonight at Cinema City in Norwich before a screening of Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth (1998) as part of the Reels of History series. Come along to consider how historical this stunning film actually is!
Museum Secrets on TV tonight
I appear tonight in Museum Secrets’ Episode 6 ‘The Met’
American Women of Surrey
I really enjoyed speaking today to the American Women of Surrey. Wonderful audience!
Review in History Today
I’ve reviewed Lucy Worsley’s new(ish) book Courtiers: The Secret History of Kensington Palace in History Today www.historytoday.com/blog/books-blog/suzannah-lipscomb/courtiers
GMTV / ITV
Early one morning on June 2010, Suzannah went to talk to Emma Crosby and John Stapleton about how history is taught in schools, and how it focuses too much on Hitler and even (sadly) Henry VIII.
Plenti and Grase: Food and Drink in a Sixteenth Century Household
Review article reproduced from History Today, volume 60, issue 4, April 2010 Suzannah Lipscomb on a book about how the English ate in the high middle ages and the early modern era. Trying to shed some pounds before Christmas? Has your doctor recently told you to cut back on alcohol…
Henry’s big year
Article reproduced from Reform Magazine, December 2009 Five hundred years after his accession to the throne, Suzannah Lipscomb looks at a critical year in the life of Henry VIII. The English Reformation, she argues, wasn’t all about Anne Boleyn. Everyone knows that England broke away from the Roman Catholic Church…
Henry’s pleasure palace
Article reproduced from Essence Magazine, July/August 2009 Suzannah Lipscomb, author and research curator at Hampton Court Palace, on the endless opportunities to experience the life and turbulent times of Henry VIII Hampton Court was one of Henry VIII’s favourite houses, out of the 50 or so palaces, houses and castles…
The new face of Tudor history
Being around Henry VIII proved an unhappy experience for some women. Suzannah has been happily living with the tyrannical king for two years now, with no separation being contemplated yet, writes Reg Little in The Oxford Times, May 2009. The historian David Starkey freely admits to having become obsessed, even a…
The One Show
Suzannah met the lovely Dan Snow for an interview at the Tower of London and a live broadcast from Hampton Court Palace, for The One Show. It aired on BBC ONE in March 2009. They talked all about Henry VIII and 1536, and about the new visitor experience at Hampton Court.
Henry VIII’s Lost Palaces
Suzannah took part in this Time Team Special for CHANNEL FOUR in 2009. Filmed with director Brendan Hughes at the gorgeous Loseley Park.