Talks | Suzannah Lipscomb

Suzannah is an accomplished public speaker and has given many talks and lectures at universities, museums, galleries, history societies, clubs and schools. Please email her if you’d like to ask her to come and talk to your group.

Upcoming public talks

  • Kenilworth Castle (English Heritage) – ‘A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England’ – Wednesday 16 May, 7pm. More information and tickets here.
  • The Tower of London (BBC History Magazine in association Historic Royal Palaces) with Dan Jones - ’Plantagenets vs Tudors: Which dynasty mattered more?’ – Thursday 17 May, 5pm. More information and tickets here.
  • Boleyn Blicking Festival – ’1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII’ – Saturday 19 May, 6pm. More information and tickets here.
  • Latitude Festival – ‘A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England’ – Saturday 14 July. More information and tickets here.

Recent popular titles for talks include

  • Prince to Tyrant: What Changed Henry VIII?
  • Anne Boleyn: Heroine or Villain?
  • Marking Henry VIII’s 500 at Hampton Court
  • The History of Hampton Court Palace
  • The Fall of Anne Boleyn
  • The Tudors on Film
  • Natural fools at Henry VIII’s court
  • Cultural Heritage and Public History: A Case Study
  • The Value of Studying the Humanities

Selected previous talks, in no particular order, include:

Keynote

  • Society of Renaissance Studies Annual Lecture 2011
  • Historical Association Keynote Speaker at the British Library 2009

History weekends

  • A Panorama of History Weekend
  • Christ Church, Oxford Special Interest Weekend

Universities

  • University College, Dublin
  • Queen Mary University
  • University of Oxford
  • The College of William and Mary
  • Fordham University
  • Salisbury University
  • The University of Maryland
  • James Madison University
  • Washington & Lee University
  • Georgetown University
  • University of East Anglia
  • University of Lancaster

Museums and galleries

  • Hampton Court Palace
  • The Mary Rose Museum
  • National Portrait Gallery

Schools

  • Charterhouse School
  • Epsom College
  • King Edward’s School
  • Sutton Valence School
  • Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School
  • Harrow School
  • Tiffin Girls’ School
  • Newcastle Royal Grammar School
  • and many others…

Clubs

  • American Women of Surrey
  • Kensington and Chelsea Women’s Club
  • Lincoln College, Oxford Dining Club at the Cavalry and Guards’ Club
  • Society of Graduates, University of Oxford

History societies

  • Oxford University Historical Society
  • Beaconsfield Historical Society
  • Esher and District Local History Society
  • St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society
  • Sunbury and Shepperton Local History Society
  • Twickenham Local History Society

Reading groups

  • Sunbury Book Circle
  • Oxford Book Club

And elsewhere…

  • Cinema City, Norwich

Please email her if you’d like to ask her to come and talk to your group.

 

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