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About Suzannah Lipscomb

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is an award–winning historian, author, and broadcaster.

She is Professor Emerita at the University of Roehampton, Senior Member at St Cross College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries.

She has written and edited seven books, presented history series on BBC, ITV, More4 and Channel 5 and hosts the successful Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit.

She received a double First, MSt, and DPhil in History from Lincoln and Balliol Colleges, Oxford.

She is a Trustee Director of the Mary Rose Trust. In 2024, she is the Chair of Judges of the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.

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A History of Royal Scandals

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The Voices of Nîmes

Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc

This book recovers the lives and aspirations of ordinary French women in a vanished past. It is the first book to give us a study of ordinary French women’s concerns about their lives, menfolk, friendships, and faith, based on a set of rich sources that capture women’s voices – when most non-elite women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history.

Suzannah Lipscomb has closely examined 1,200 detailed moral cases to illuminate the realities of women, sex, and marriage. Her findings demand the reassessment of much of what we thought we knew: women emerge as more resourceful, more violent, and more powerful than we ever thought.