Last Days of Anne Boleyn
BBC History Magazine: ‘Anne Boleyn: Why did Henry VIII want her dead? March 2013
Our Tudor Past
Eastern Daily Press: ‘Suzannah connecting with our Tudor past’, Rachel Banham. My interview with Eastern Daily Press was published on Monday 28 May, 2012. I’m pictured at Blickling Hall in Norfolk at the Blickling Boleyn Festival. Includes my top ten Tudor sites in East Anglia!
Booker Prize
The Daily Telegraph: Booker Prize 2012: Mantel’s tale drips with the often putrid scents of the Tudor age, October, 2012. ‘Hilary Mantel has won the Booker for the second time. If her first award brought Tudor fiction to a wider audience, her second will surely seal her mastery of the…
Oxford
The Telegraph Travel: ‘Oxford: My Kind of Town’, April 2013. It is extraordinarily beautiful to walk through and with its university, a great cultural centre. If you are sitting in a café you will catch snatches of conversation on Hegel or Harry Potter or Star Wars or Proust.
Six Dinner Companions
The Daily Telegraph: ‘Table talk: Dr Suzannah Lipscomb chooses six dream dinner companions from the past’, March 2012. Eleanor of Aquitaine, Will Somer, Pocahontas, Sir Thomas Roe, Franz Liszt and G.K. Chesterton
All the King’s Fools
History Today, Issue 8, August 2011. The fools of the early Tudor court were likely to have bee people with learning disabilities, demonstrates a new project.
When gossip was good…
BBC History Magazine: ‘When gossip was good’, Spencer Mizen, April 2013. Read the article and Suzannah’s comments about it. I was surprised and chuffed to discover that BBC History Magazine featured an academic article of mine (‘Crossing Boundaries: Women’s Gossip, Insults and Violence in 16th-Century France’, from French History, Vol…
A Code of Conduct for Historians
Historians should adhere to a rigorous code of professional practice if they are to avoid the kinds of careless mistakes that bring their professional integrity into question, says Suzannah Lipscomb in her most important column for History Today to date (first published December 2014). I recently read the film critic…
Henry VIII
The Telegraph: 1536, the year that changed Henry VIII, April 2009 When Henry became king in 1509, his accession received a rapturous greeting. He was seen as intelligent, a fine linguist, musician and keen sportsman
Historians need a Code of Conduct
Historians, I argue in History Today, need a Code of Conduct: Historians should adhere to a rigorous code of professional practice if they are to avoid the kinds of careless mistakes that bring their professional integrity into question. http://www.historytoday.com/suzannah-lipscomb/code-conduct-historians
A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England is soon coming out in a new paperback.
It looks rather splendid.
The King is Dead! The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII
I'm battling hard to finish a little book by New Year. It's to be called The King is Dead! The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII, and, if I pull it off, will be published in the spring. All encouragement welcome! Update, Update - I finished it in the…
Review of ‘Thomas Cromwell’ by Tracy Boorman and ‘The Hollow Crown’ by Dan Jones
I've reviewed Tracy Borman and Dan Jones's new books for the New Statesman - follow this link Behind the Mantel: in search of the real Thomas Cromwell. To capitalise on the success of Wolf Hall or perhaps to offer an accurate historical account of Cromwell, there have been four recent or reissued biographies of…
BBC History Magazine Weekend in Malmesbury 2014
This year I was again delighted to be speaking at the BBC History Magazine Weekend in Malmesbury Abbey, and also to be interviewed by Sam Willis for a BBC History Magazine Podcast.
Leadership Lessons From The Tudors
I recently gave a talk at the Tower of London to Jardine Matheson Executives from Hong Kong on the leadership lessons we can learn from the Tudors (including what to avoid). Brilliant group; tremendous fun.
A Different Style of Student Life
Blown away by this wonderful piece about NCH (and flattering mention of me) in The Daily Telegraph by History student Hugo Stevensen.
Inspiration Awards for Women
I was honoured to be a judge at this year's Inspiration Awards for Women. Here are some of the highlights from the 2014 Awards for Women supporting Breakthrough Breast Cancer at Cadogan Hall, London, England. The event acknowledges inspirational women and raises money and profile for the charity.
My September History Today Column – Poirot or Scheherazade?
Poirot or Scheherazade? I ask: must historians choose between academic analysis and popular narrative, in my latest column in History Today.
New Book Soon
I'm cracking on with a new book - on Henry VIII's last will - so hopefully some things will be coming your way before too long.
The Plantagenets
I spent 7th August recording a BBC History Magazine podcast interview about the wars of the roses, the fifteenth century, and the art and science of writing history, interrogating Dan Jones. The podcast is live on the BBC History Mag website. We also deviated into the writing of popular history, whether Richard III…