![]() Lipscomb also contributed to Time Team, Series 20, for Channel 4. The series was designed to give "tabloid treatment of historical icons", and includes an episode where Lipscomb and co-host Lucy Worsley "revel in these raunchy titbits" about Henry VIII's love life. She contributed to five episodes of The Secret Life Of: for the Yesterday TV channel. ![]() Īt their ballot on 17th February 2022, Lipscomb was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In 2021, Lipscomb was awarded a Special Commendation by the Social History Society for her book, The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc. Lipscomb previously served as a governor at Epsom College, and was appointed as a Trustee to the Mary Rose Trust in December 2020. She is currently professor emerita in their School of Humanities and Social Sciences. In September 2017, she joined the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Roehampton as a reader in Early Modern History, and was appointed as a professor of history at the University of Roehampton in January 2019. In October 2018, Lipscomb was elected a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2012, Lipscomb was awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society for her journal article "Crossing Boundaries: Women's Gossip, Insults, and Violence in Sixteenth-Century France", in French History (Vol 25, No. įrom September 2011, she was head of the Faculty of History at the New College of the Humanities, and stepped down in September 2016 to concentrate on research and teaching for a further year. In 2011, Lipscomb was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. ![]() In 2010, Lipscomb became a lecturer in history at the University of East Anglia. She is a consultant to Historic Royal Palaces, and is an external member of their research strategy board. ![]() The programme won the 2011 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-sponsored KTP Award for Humanities for the Creative Economy. While completing her thesis, she worked as a curator at Hampton Court Palace, where she was responsible for organising a series of exhibitions held throughout the spring and summer of 2009 to mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII of England's accession to the throne. In 2009, she was awarded her Doctorate of Philosophy from Oxford, with a thesis entitled Maids, Wives, and Mistresses: Disciplined Women in Reformation Languedoc. Lipscomb grew up in Surrey near Hampton Court Palace, which she credits for sowing “the seeds of a lifelong fascination with the Tudors.” She was educated at Nonsuch High School for Girls, Epsom College, and Lincoln and Balliol colleges of the University of Oxford. In December 2020, Lipscomb was appointed a trustee of the Mary Rose Trust. She 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. Lipscomb was previously a member of the board of governors of Epsom College. She has also written and talked about British and European witch trials. Her research focuses on the sixteenth century, in both English and French history, and covers religious, gender, political, social, and psychological history. She 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. Suzannah Rebecca Gabriella Lipscomb FRHistS FHEA FSA (born 7 December 1978) is a British historian and professor emerita at the University of Roehampton, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Higher Education Academy and the Society of Antiquaries, and has for many years contributed a regular column to History Today.
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