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327pp. In 2012, she was awarded the Nancy 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. 4), and was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Suzannah’s latest book, The King is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII, was published by Head of Zeus on 5th November 2015.
The monograph makes a major contribution to theoretical debates about early modern gender by forcing a reconceptualization of our ideas about patriarchy and female power in early modern society, suggesting, for example, that women’s ways of challenging and colluding with patriarchy were often indistinguishable.
- The King is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII.
ISBN: 9781784081928. Contributor and panellist on shows on BBC 1 and 2.
Contributor on BBC Radio 3, 4, Five Live and LBC, and host of 'Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places' po
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- England, France, United Kingdom, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Pre-17th century, 17th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Gender, Museums, Public History, Religion, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women
Chronological biography | Suzannah Lipscomb
Suzannah was educated at Epsom College (where she is now a Governor) and Lincoln College, Oxford.
It seeks to explain why the trials happened, in the context of magical belief, the law, judicial systems, socio-economic circumstances, and fantasy.
- A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England. She has written and edited six books, presented thirteen history television documentary series on the BBC, ITV, Channel Five etc, and writes a regular column for History Today.
- Recent Publications
- The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc, Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press, forthcoming January 2019
This is the first history of the lives of ordinary women in early modern France that focuses on women’s behaviour, beliefs, and agency.
She is Professor of History at the University of Roehampton and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2009. Even scholarship that has allowed greater access to women’s narratives, such as that on episcopal and secular courts, is largely missing for this period as there are no known surviving French episcopal court records from 1540-1660, and criminal authorities seldom showed interest in recording women’s accounts.
In 2011, she was awarded a public engagement grant (People Award) from the Wellcome Trust to fund ‘All the King’s Fools’, a performance project in which actors with learning disabilities play the Tudor period’s ‘natural fools’ at Hampton Court Palace, which won a 2012 Museums + Heritage Award for Excellence.
In October 2011, she took up her post as Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at New College of the Humanities.
Paperback published May 2018.
Historians have disagreed forcibly over the intended meaning, authenticity, and validity of Henry VIII’s last will and testament, and the circumstances of its creation. In 2006-7, Suzannah was a Royal Historical Society Marshall Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research.
From 2007 to 2010, Suzannah was Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace (Historic Royal Palaces), and was one of the lead curators responsible for creating a new visitor experience in the Tudor Palace to mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII’s accession to the throne in 2009.
She was employed through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Kingston University, sponsored by the AHRC. 326pp. Until now, the historiography has concentrated on elite women and on the structures of society, and has been accessed mostly through prescriptive literature, such as literary and legal sources. In this book, I re-examined the evidence and challenged the existing orthodoxy that Henry’s will was the product of a conspiracy, arguing instead that it was literally his will – the product of his own volition.
- 1536: The Year that Changed Henry 240pp.
London: Ebury, 2012. For her achievements during this time, Suzannah won the AHRC 2011 ‘Humanities in the Creative Economy’ Award.
In 2009, Suzannah also organized a series of high profile events, including ‘The Henry VIII Talks at Hampton Court Palace’ in association with History Today, and a major three-day international academic conference on Henry VIII and the Tudor Court.
ISBN: 9780091944841.