Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is an award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Roehampton; Senior Member of Common Room at St Cross College, Oxford; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries; and a columnist for History Today. She has written and edited seven books and presented numerous history documentary series on the BBC, ITV, Channel Five, etc. She is the host of Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit and a royal historian for NBC. She received a double First, MSt, and DPhil in History from Lincoln and Balliol Colleges, Oxford, and was formerly Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace.
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