Talks | Suzannah Lipscomb

Suzannah is an engaging public speaker and has given many talks and lectures at universities, museums, galleries, history societies, clubs and schools.

Here she is giving a TEDx talk at St Paul’s School:

Please click here to read feedback from one of Suzannah’s recent audiences, or please email her if you’d like to ask her to come and talk to your group.

Upcoming public talks

  • V&A – ‘Fit for a King: Power, Glory & Fashion at the Tudor Court’, 18 May 2013. Find out more and buy tickets here.
  • English Heritage Festival of History at Kelmarsh Hall, ‘Scars on the Landscape: Encountering the Dissolution of the Monasteries’, 21 July 2013. Find out more.
  • BBC History Magazine’s History Weekend, ‘Tudors vs Plantagenets’, with Dan Jones, 26 October 2013. Find out more.

Recent public talks

  • BBC History Magazine, Talking Tudors Day, ‘The Anne Boleyn Controversies’, 28 April 2013.
  • Friends of Sheffield Manor Lodge, ’1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII’, 3 November 2012.
  • Throckmorton Literary Festival at Coughton Court, ‘A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England’, 23 September 2012.
  • World Monuments Fund at the Royal Geographical Society, ‘Behind Closed Doors: The Hidden Histories of Great Buildings’ with Hallie Rubenhold, 12 September 2012.
  • Latitude Festival - ‘A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England’, 13 July 2012.
  • Villiers Park Educational Trust, ‘Breaking the Silence: Finding the Ordinary Women of Sixteenth-Century France’, 9 July 2012.
  • The Making of a Monarchy for the Modern World, Kensington Palace, 6-8 June – chaired a panel on ‘Redefining Monarchy for the Modern World’, 8 June 2012.
  • The Boleyn Festival at Blickling Hall – ’1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII’, 19 May 2012.
  • The Tower of London (BBC History Magazine in association Historic Royal Palaces) with Dan Jones- ’Plantagenets vs Tudors: Which dynasty mattered more?’, 17 May 2012.
  • Kenilworth Castle (English Heritage) – ‘A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England’, 16 May 2012

Popular titles for talks include

  • Prince to Tyrant: What Changed Henry VIII?
  • A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England
  • The Tudors: The Dynasty that Made England
  • 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII
  • The History of Hampton Court Palace
  • Anne Boleyn: Heroine or Villain?
  • The Fall of Anne Boleyn
  • The Tudors on Film
  • Natural Fools at Henry VIII’s Court
  • Marking Henry VIII’s 500 at Hampton Court
  • Cultural Heritage and Public History: A Case Study
  • The Value of Studying the Humanities
  • Breaking the Silence: Finding the Ordinary Women of Sixteenth-Century France

But do ask about the possibility of talks on other topics.

Other selected previous talks 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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