Before joining UEA, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb took a double first in her BA Hons (later MA) in Modern History and distinction in her Master of Studies in Historical Research, both at Lincoln College, Oxford. As a Jowett Senior Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, she read her D.Phil. in history (working with Robin Briggs on a thesis entitled ‘Maids, wives and mistresses: disciplined women in Reformation Languedoc’), which she was awarded in 2009.

In 2006-7, Suzannah was a Royal Historical Society Marshall Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. In February 2007, she was made Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace (Historic Royal Palaces), a position she held until August 2010. This employment was partly as a KTP Associate funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in partnership with Kingston University. In this role, Suzannah 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. In 2009, Suzannah also co-organized ‘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.

Suzannah has appeared on BBC’s The One Show, ITV’s GMTV, Channel 4‘s Time Team, and the History Channel. She has presented BBC Radio 3’s The Essay, and contributed to many publications, including The Sunday Telegraph and History Today.

(B.A. Hons) M.A. Modern History, Lincoln College, University of Oxford (2001)

M.St. Historical Research, Lincoln College, University of Oxford (2003)

D.Phil. Modern History, Balliol College, University of Oxford (2009)

• Gender, patriarchy and sexuality in early modern England and France
• Henry VIII and the early Tudor court, especially religious, gender, social and psychological history
• Natural fools at Henry VIII’s court: mental disability and the body, performance, and material culture
• Morality and discipline in the early French Protestant church
• Heritage and public history

Research supervision 

Interested in supervising research students in all areas of 

• Early modern English or European gender or social history
• Early Tudor court culture
• Public history

Forthcoming publications:

Books

Editor, with Prof. Thomas Betteridge, Henry VIII and the Tudor Court (Ashgate, in press - under contract for publication in 2011)

Chapters in books

‘The fall of Anne Boleyn: a crisis in gender relations at the Tudor court?’ in Henry VIII and the Tudor Court ed. Suzannah Lipscomb and Thomas Betteridge (Ashgate, in press, forthcoming 2011)
 

Journal articles

‘Crossing boundaries: women’s gossip and violence in sixteenth-century France’, French History 25.2 (in press, forthcoming, June 2011)

Review articles

Review of Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions by G.W. Bernard, Renaissance Quarterly (in press, forthcoming, 2011)

Review of Courtiers: The Secret History of Kensington Palace by Lucy Worsley, History Today (in press, forthcoming, 2010)

Review of Plenti and Grase: Food and Drink in a Sixteenth-Century Household by Mark Dawson, History Today (April 2010)

Review of The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and Adultery by Maureen Waller, The Sunday Telegraph (November 2009)

Review of The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of Monastery by Geoffrey Moorhouse, History Today (July 2008)

Review of Exploring Emotional History: Gender, Mentality and Literature in the Indian Awakening by Rajat Kanta Ray, The Telegraph (Calcutta, February 2002)

• Social, religious and political history of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
• Women and gender in early modern England and Europe
• Tudor court culture
• The Reformation
• Witchcraft, magic and belief
• Heritage and public history

• Examples of modules taught

• • Introduction to Early Modern Studies

• • Early Modern England

• • Witchcraft, Magic and Belief in Early Modern Europe

• • MA module – Society and Culture in Early Modern England