Guest Bio
Suzannah Lipscomb is Emeritus Professor at the University of Roehampton, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a columnist for History Today. She is also well-known as a broadcast historian, having written and presented numerous documentary series and is the host of the podcast Not Just the Tudors, from History Hit.
Suzannah is the author of five books on the sixteenth century. She published her first book 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII in 2009 (Lion Hudson), followed by A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England (Ebury; 2012; Pegasus, 2013), The King is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII (Head of Zeus, 2015; Pegasus, 2016), and Witchcraft (Penguin Ladybird, 2018).
Her most recent book was The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc (Oxford University Press, 2019). She also co-edited, with Tom Betteridge, Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics, and Performance (Ashgate, 2013). With Helen Carr, she edited What is History, Now? (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2021). For this, Suzannah co-wrote the introduction and contributed an essay called ‘How can we recover the lost lives of women?’
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Natalie Grueninger speaks with Professor Suzannah Lipscomb about women’s voices from the past.
Tune in to hear Natalie and Professor Lipscomb discuss:
– The relationship between women and power
– The main challenges associated with writing about women’s history
– Why it’s crucial to give voice to women from the past
– How feminism has changed how we research and write about women’s history
– Tips for budding historians!
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