suzannah lipscomb

British historian Suzannah Lipscomb is a professor emerita at the University of Roehampton, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Higher Education Academy, and the Society of Antiquities, and she has written a regular column for History Today for many years. She is the host of the Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit and has authored and edited a number of publications. She has also presented a number of historical documentaries on TV. She works for NBC as a royal historian as well.

Her research examines religious, gender, political, social, and psychological history and centres on the sixteenth century in both English and French history. Additionally, she has discussed and written about the British and European witch trials. Lipscomb served on the Epsom College Board of Governors. She was a curator for Historic Royal Palaces at Hampton Court, a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, a senior lecturer and history convenor at the New College of the Humanities, and a reader at the University of Roehampton, where she was promoted to professor in January 2019 after being given a personal chair as a professor of history.

Lipscomb was one of 300 eminent historians who signed a letter to The Guardian in May 2016 warning voters that if they decided to leave the European Union (EU) on June 23, they would be committing Britain to irrelevance. Other signatories were Simon Schama and Niall Ferguson. Lipscomb was named a Trustee of the Mary Rose Trust in December 2020. In a letter titled “Freedom to Protest” to The Times published in January 2022, Lipscomb joined more than 310 other authors and publishers, including Bernadine Evaristo and Robert Macfarlane, in urging the House of Lords to reject the government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court Bill.