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Prof Suzannah Lipscomb is Professor Emerita in History at the University of Roehampton. She is the author of 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII, A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England, The King is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII, Witchcraft, and The Voices of Nimes: Women, Sex and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc. She edited, with Helen Carr, What is History, Now? (out 2021). She also writes and presents television programmes, including series on Henry VIII and his Six Wives, Witches: A Century of Murder, and Elizabeth I; hosts the podcast Not Just the Tudors from History Hit, and writes a regular column for History Today. ...more

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	A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult 4.01 avg rating — 1,270 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England 4.03 avg rating — 889 ratings — published 2012 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII 4.09 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What is History, Now? by Suzannah Lipscomb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Helen Carr (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII 4.03 avg rating — 444 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witchcraft: A Ladybird Expert Book (36) (The Ladybird Expert Series) 4.02 avg rating — 191 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc 4.02 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History's Lost Speeches 3.78 avg rating — 72 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry VIII and the Court: Art, Politics and Performance by Suzannah Lipscomb (Goodreads Author), Thomas Betteridge (Editor) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Büyü Kitabı Cadılık ve Okültizm Tarihi it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Fruit and vegetables were not thought to agree with man’s digestion. The Book of Keruynge [Carving] of 1508 warned its readers to ‘beware of green salads and raw fruits for they will [make] your souerayne [stomach] sick’, and Sir Thomas Elyot had the same message in his book from 1541, The Castle of Health. ‘All fruits generally,’ he wrote, ‘are noyfull [harmful] to man and do”
― Suzannah Lipscomb, A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England

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“Which stories we tell about history, who we celebrate and the ideas and values they embody determine the world we live in today.”
― Suzannah Lipscomb, What Is History, Now?

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“What the Reformation did was create an atmosphere of apocalyptic angst: people believed that they were living in the end days, and this brought the Devil to their minds.”
― Suzannah Lipscomb, Witchcraft: A Ladybird Expert Book

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Polls

What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like the group to read together as our Group Read in February 2018?

The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History by Elizabeth Norton

12 votes, 13.6%

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

11 votes, 12.5%

The Perfect Prince: The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and His Quest for the Throne of England by Ann Wroe

9 votes, 10.2%

The Tudor Brandons: Mary and Charles - Henry VIII's Nearest & Dearest by Sarah-Beth Watkins

9 votes, 10.2%

1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb

7 votes, 8.0%

Brief Gaudy Hour: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Margaret Campbell Barnes

6 votes, 6.8%

The Last White Rose: Dynasty, Rebellion and Treason. The Secret Wars against the Tudors by Desmond Seward

5 votes, 5.7%

The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives

5 votes, 5.7%

Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard

5 votes, 5.7%

The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory

4 votes, 4.5%

Anne of Cleves: Henry's Luckiest Wife by D. Lawrence-Young

4 votes, 4.5%

The Player King by Avi

4 votes, 4.5%

A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England by Suzannah Lipscomb

4 votes, 4.5%

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen by Elizabeth Norton

3 votes, 3.4%

88 total votes

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