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Suzannah Lipscomb

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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 4.02 avg rating — 1,329 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 4.04 avg rating — 907 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 4.10 avg rating — 663 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) 4.10 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 2021	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 — 450 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) 4.03 avg rating — 190 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 3.99 avg rating — 95 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 3.77 avg rating — 71 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 — 12 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.”
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Polls

What books about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like for our Group Read in April 2019?

Sovereign by C.J. Sansom

12 votes, 15.6%

Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was by Sean Cunningham

11 votes, 14.3%

Young Bess by Margaret Irwin

6 votes, 7.8%

1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb

6 votes, 7.8%

Uneasy Lies the Head by Jean Plaidy

6 votes, 7.8%

The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd

6 votes, 7.8%

Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

4 votes, 5.2%

Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore

4 votes, 5.2%

With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown by Benton Rain Patterson

3 votes, 3.9%

Mary Queen of Scots' Downfall: The Life and Murder of Henry, Lord Darnley by Robert Stedall

3 votes, 3.9%

This Marlowe by Michelle Butler Hallett

3 votes, 3.9%

MARY - Tudor Princess by Tony Riches

3 votes, 3.9%

The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G.J. Meyer

3 votes, 3.9%

The White Rose Murders by Paul Doherty

3 votes, 3.9%

Wolsey: The Life of King Henry VIII's Cardinal by John Matusiak

2 votes, 2.6%

Graven With Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt. Courtier, Poet, Assassin, Spy by Nicola Shulman

2 votes, 2.6%

Richard Hooker Prophet of Anglicanism by Philip B. Secor

0 votes, 0.0%

77 total votes

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