1. Suzannah Lipscomb has written and edited a number of books, presented numerous historical documentaries on TV and is host of the Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit.
38 Facts About Suzannah Lipscomb
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Suzannah Lipscomb's research focuses on the sixteenth century, in both English and French history, and covers religious, gender, political, social, and psychological history.
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Suzannah Lipscomb has written and talked about British and European witch trials.
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Suzannah Lipscomb worked as a curator for Historic Royal Palaces at Hampton Court; as a lecturer at the University of East Anglia; as a senior lecturer and convenor for history at the New College of the Humanities; and, as a reader at the University of Roehampton, where she became a professor when she was appointed to a personal chair as a professor of history in January 2019.
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In December 2020, Suzannah Lipscomb was appointed a trustee of the Mary Rose Trust.
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Suzannah Lipscomb is a consultant to Historic Royal Palaces, and is an external member of their research strategy board.
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In 2010, Suzannah Lipscomb became a lecturer in history at the University of East Anglia.
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In 2011, Suzannah Lipscomb was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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In October 2018, Suzannah Lipscomb was elected a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Suzannah Lipscomb is currently professor emerita in their School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Suzannah Lipscomb previously served as a governor at Epsom College, and was appointed as a Trustee to the Mary Rose Trust in December 2020.
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At their ballot on 17th February 2022, Suzannah Lipscomb was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
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Suzannah Lipscomb contributed to five episodes of The Secret Life Of: for the Yesterday TV channel.
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Suzannah Lipscomb contributed to Time Team, Series 20, for Channel 4.
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In May 2013, Suzannah Lipscomb appeared in The Last Days of Anne Boleyn on BBC Two, which featured other historians and historical novelists, including David Starkey, Philippa Gregory, and Hilary Mantel.
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Suzannah Lipscomb co-presented I Never Knew That About Britain, for ITV.
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Suzannah Lipscomb wrote and presented a two-part documentary titled Henry and Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History for Channel 5.
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Suzannah Lipscomb wrote and presented Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home for BBC Four, as well as the follow-up shows New Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home, Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home, and Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home.
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In October 2015, Suzannah Lipscomb wrote and presented Witch Hunt: A Century of Murder, a two-part documentary for Channel 5.
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On 27 October 2015, Suzannah Lipscomb joined Matthew Sweet, Marina Warner, Larushka Ivan-zadeh, Claire Nally, and Catherine Spooner, to talk about witchcraft and witch-hunting, in history, film, and politics on the BBC Radio programme Free Thinking.
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Suzannah Lipscomb participated on the programme additional times in January 2018 and December 2019.
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That same month, Suzannah Lipscomb appeared on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to discuss the Archbishop of Canterbury's expected apology for the violence that followed the Protestant Reformation, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
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In May 2017, in collaboration with Dan Jones, Suzannah Lipscomb co-wrote and co-presented a three-part docu-drama, Elizabeth I, for Channel 5.
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In June and July 2017, Suzannah Lipscomb was the week's guest on the BBC Radio 3 programme titled Essential Classics, where she selected her favourite classical pieces of music for presenter Rob Cowan.
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Between 2017 and 2019, Suzannah Lipscomb was a regular contributor to "Dictionary Corner" on Countdown with Susie Dent.
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On 13 January 2018, Suzannah Lipscomb appeared as a contestant on an academic version of Pointless Celebrities, partnered with performance poet John Cooper Clarke, where they reached the head-to-head round.
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In March 2018, Suzannah Lipscomb began a series of podcasts for Historic England entitled Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places.
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Suzannah Lipscomb presented The Tsar and Empress: Secret Letters on Australia's SBS TV Channel in April 2018, and on the Yesterday channel in May 2018.
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Suzannah Lipscomb was a judge of the biography and memoirs section for the Costa Book Awards, and the Costa Book of the Year competition in 2019.
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On 29 April 2021, Suzannah Lipscomb began presenting her own podcast under the History Hit Umbrella, entitled Not Just The Tudors.
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In July and August 2021, Suzannah Lipscomb presented Walking Tudor Britain for 5Select, in which the historian walked across different parts of Britain to uncover exciting hidden secrets of Tudor history.
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In September 2022 Suzannah Lipscomb was a major contributor to The Age of Elizabeth after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
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In 2023 Suzannah Lipscomb presented the first series of Step Into The Past, a podcast in collaboration with the National Trust, the first episode of which was about Suzannah Lipscomb's own family.
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Suzannah Lipscomb is chair of judges of the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024, the longlist for which was announced on 15 February 2024.
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In October 2024 Suzannah Lipscomb presented the first part of the second series of The Royals: A History of Scandals which will continue over six weeks.
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In May 2016, Suzannah Lipscomb was one of 300 prominent historians, including Simon Schama and Niall Ferguson, who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian, telling voters that if they chose to leave the European Union on 23 June, they would be condemning Britain to irrelevance.
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In January 2022, Suzannah Lipscomb was one of over 310 writers and publishers, including Bernardine Evaristo and Robert Macfarlane, who asked the House of Lords to vote down the government's Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court Bill in a letter to The Times, entitled Freedom to Protest.
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Suzannah Lipscomb is currently married and raises a child with her husband, actor Tom Hutch.