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1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII

February 5, 2015March 16, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII Published by Lion Hudson, 2009. Reprinted 2012. Henry VIII fascinates, compels and repulses us, in equal measure. After all the films, novels and paintings, Henry VIII is the British monarch we like to think we know. Yet, one central mystery has remained unexplained.…

Henry VIII: 500 Facts

February 4, 2015March 16, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

Henry VIII: 500 Facts Co-authored with Brett Dolman and Lee Prosser, David Souden and Lucy Worsley. Edited by Sarah Kilby. Published by Historic Royal Palaces, 2009. Henry VIII: 500 Facts is a light-hearted miscellany of Henry VIII-related trivia. With chapters on Henry the man, the husband, the father and the ruler,…

A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England

February 3, 2015March 16, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England Published by Ebury (Random House): March 2012. Out in paperback January 2015. Drawing on the nation’s insatiable appetite for the Tudors, A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England is an appealing gazetteer and bedside book featuring the surviving places, objects and stories of Tudor…

Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance

February 1, 2015March 16, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance Co-edited with Prof. Thomas Betteridge Published by Ashgate, 2013. In 2009, Suzannah Lipscomb and Thomas Betteridge organized a major three-day international academic conference at Hampton Court Palace to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession. It attracted some excellent contributions from…

How Recent is History?

January 29, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

In this History Today article I argue that a revolution in communications and new technology means that we now live in an age of speeded-up history. Historians should wake up to this shift - read it here.

Tudors – The Illustrated History

January 25, 2015February 13, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

An edited extract from my Introduction to Richard Rex's 'Tudors' was published in The Sunday Telegraph on 25th January 2015 - What's So Gripping About The Tudors? The dynasty was short-lived, insecure and suspicious, yet laid the foundations for our Navy, Church and Empire. THE TUDORS: ILLUSTRATED HISTORY By Richard Rex,…

WOW! Damian Lewis read 1536 to prepare for his role as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall

January 23, 2015January 23, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

Well, I am astonished and delighted: Damian Lewis says that, among others (and as well as looking to Prince Harry!), he read my book on Henry VIII to prepare for his role in Wolf Hall: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/11358197/Damian-Lewiss-inspiration-for-Wolf-Halls-Henry-VIII-Wills-and-Harry.html

Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home

January 21, 2015July 18, 2016 by Suzannah Lipscomb

Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home aired on BBC FOUR in January 2015. Dr Suzannah Lipscomb takes us back to Tudor times in search of the household killers of the era. It was a great age of exploration and science where adventurers returned from the New World with exotic goods previously unknown in…

Tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1599

January 15, 2015January 15, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

I've written an article for The Times bringing together two of my great loves: the Tudors... and partying. 'Tonight we're going to party like it's 1599': 'Partying like a Tudor is a serious endeavour. Henry VIII’s party without parallel, the Field of the Cloth of Gold — the Glastonbury of…

Henry and Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History

January 12, 2015January 12, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

A little bird has told me that Henry and Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History premieres at 11.30am on Tuesday 13th January on the Australian History Channel.

Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home

January 6, 2015January 7, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

It's official, Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home will air on BBC 4 on Tuesday 20th January at 9pm. Here's the latest information from the BBC with me looking very sad at the prospect of all those killers! Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home.

I Never Knew That About Britain

January 6, 2015January 6, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

I Never Knew that About Britain will be on ITV on Wednesday nights, starting this week 7th January, at 11.40pm. The first unknown fact is the last invasion of Britain. This is the blurb from when it was on TV last year - I Never Knew That About Britain

The Last Days of Anne Boleyn

January 6, 2015January 6, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

The Last Days of Anne Boleyn is being repeated on BBC 2 on Saturday 10th January at 7.30pm. This is a talking heads programme of historians and historical novelists, and includes Greg Walker, Hilary Mantel, David Starkey, Philippa Gregory ... a few others, and me! The Last Days of Anne Boleyn -…

Why we still need feminism

December 31, 2014July 18, 2016 by Suzannah Lipscomb

In the New College of the Humanities' Anchor Magazine, Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb argues that we still vehemently need feminism. First published 31 December 2014. Women can reach the top: girls outperform boys at A level; female applicants to university far outnumber males. We have had a female prime minister, a female…

Does Fantasy Fiction Beat Period Drama?

December 30, 2014July 18, 2016 by Suzannah Lipscomb

In her regular History Today column, for April 2014, Suzannah Lipscomb argues that the strangeness of the past can be evoked more effectively in pick and mix fantasies than in those novels, films and TV dramas that aspire to realism. Later this month the fourth series of the enormously popular…

New Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home

December 26, 2014July 22, 2016 by Suzannah Lipscomb

Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home is featured as a choice of the day in the Radio Times and even made the Nursing Times as the best of the week’s health related TV! I also wrote a piece for BBC news 10 dangerous things in Victorian / Edwardian homes on the…

You’re History, Dr Starkey!

December 25, 2014July 18, 2016 by Suzannah Lipscomb

The Mail on Sunday: ‘You’re History, Dr Starkey!” Elizabeth Sanderson, June 2013. “Look out! TV’s new telegenic academic delivers this memorable lecture for “sexist and grey-haired’ older rivals – and notes: ‘Genitalia do not help anyone understand any better'

Anne Boleyn

December 23, 2014February 5, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

Royal Central: A Review of The Last Days of Anne Boleyn, BBC2, Karen Kilrow, May 2012. “I think Suzannah Lipscomb summed up the debate perfectly when she said – ‘When it comes to the fall of Anne Boleyn there is just enough evidence to keep historians guessing and just enough…

Daily Mail

December 22, 2014February 5, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

Breast implants, bleached teeth, liposuction and Botox … the most famous characters I history would have looked very different if they’d been around today. May 2013

Quote of the Day

December 21, 2014February 5, 2015 by Suzannah Lipscomb

“Quite fun … I tweeted this on the morning of Prince George’s birth and discovered it later quoted in the Evening Standard!!” July 2013

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