Review in History Today
I’ve reviewed Lucy Worsley’s new(ish) book Courtiers: The Secret History of Kensington Palace in History Today www.historytoday.com/blog/books-blog/suzannah-lipscomb/courtiers
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The Wellcome Trust fund All the King’s Fools!
I was the historical advisor on All the King’s Fools, a disability arts history performance at Hampton Court Palace on 24-27 February 2011. Brian Logan from The Guardian interviewed me and wrote a...
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I’ve just finished an article for History Today to come out in their October issue, which looks at the evidence that court fools were ‘natural fools’ or what we’d describe as people with learning...
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All the king’s fools
Many Tudor court fools had real learning difficulties. In advance of our Wellcome Trust funded performance project at Hampton Court Palace in October (6th-9th, do come!) with learning disabled actors,...
View ArticleWomen’s gossip, insults & violence in 16th century France
Delighted that my article, ‘Crossing boundaries: Women’s gossip, insults and violence in sixteenth-century France’ has been published in a special edition, ‘Embattled Faiths in Early Modern France:...
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Angel’s Emily Paine interviews me
Emily Paine from Angel Magazine interviewed me recently over a cup of tea at the British Library. We talked of cabbages and kings, but above all, about New College of the Humanities, and my new book...
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My dream dinner party guests from the past
For the Telegraph’s new history page, I was invited to consider who would be my six dream dinner party guests from history. I spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about this! I tried to choose...
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Podcasting from The Vyne
In this week’s podcast from BBC History Magazine, Dave Musgrove, the magazine’s editor and I, took a stroll through The Vyne in Hampshire to talk about its first owner, William, Lord Sandys, and Tudor...
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When gossip was good
I was surprised and chuffed to discover that BBC History Magazine featured an academic article of mine (‘Crossing Boundaries: Women’s Gossip, Insults and Violence in 16th-Century France’, from French...
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“Sixteenth-century girl’s love for Tudor Suffolk”
Steven Russell interviewed me for today’s East Anglian Daily Times about why history is the new rock ‘n’ roll: I wish Henham Park were my second home!
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Wellcome History
I’ve told you much about our innovative project working with actors with learning difficulties at Hampton Court Palace (see here), but here’s a little more: the Wellcome Trust – which funded the...
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A Tudor historian’s view of the Richard III excavations
I’ve written a blog for BBC History Magazine on the excavations of a skeleton which may belong to English king, Richard III: It is not surprising that for centuries Richard III has been synonymous with...
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Booker Prize 2012: Mantel’s tale drips with the often putrid scents of the...
Many, many congratulations to Hilary Mantel on her second Man Booker Prize for Bring Up the Bodies! She has set the standard for a new level of mastery of historical fiction and brought Tudor history...
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Why did Anne Boleyn have to die?
I’ve written the cover article for this month’s BBC History Magazine. In it, I try to answer a perennial question of English history: why did Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, have to be executed...
View ArticleNew Insights on Anne Boleyn’s Fall?
I would have just been delighted to have my chapter on ‘The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Crisis in Gender Relations?’ in the book I edited with Tom Betteridge for Ashgate, Henry VIII and the Court: Art,...
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