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Suzannah Lipscomb

@sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
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Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536 Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit

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victoriaj13.bsky.social @victoriaj13.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Playing from 0:00 open.spotify.com/episode/1dLV... This was fabulous, love @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social guiding my week from the off 😊😊
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Charles II: Restoration of the Monarchy
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Poddictive @poddictive.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Another fascinating episode of Not Just The Tudors hosted by @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social on the only royal physician to be executed and why. Not Just the Tudors: Elizabeth I's Doctor - & Poisoner? Episode webpage: shows.acast.com/not-just-the... Media file: sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/no...
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Elizabeth I's Doctor - & Poisoner? | Not Just the Tudors
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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Not Just the Tudors: Girl With a Pearl Earring: Identity Revealed - Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Andrew Graham-Dixon who believes he's finally identified her. shows.acast.com/not-just-the... @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social #History #Podcast
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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I spoke to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social about secrets hidden in Tudor art for the latest episode of Not Just the Tudors - find it wherever you get your podcasts!: shows.acast.com/not-just-the...
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The Secrets Hidden In Tudor Art | Not Just the Tudors
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Fascinating episode of Not Just The Tudors featuring @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social’s convo with archaeologist Mark Horton about the “Lost” colony of Roanoke, the power of myth making and memory, and what the evidence suggests really happened to the colonists. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Raleigh and the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Podcast Episode · Not Just the Tudors · 11/20/2025 · 46m
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Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
It’s a pleasure and a privilege to be part of this compelling show.
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Prof Tom Solomon CBE @runningmadprof.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
If you tune in to Ancient Autopsy on More 4 at 9pm tonight, you may just spot a familiar face! How did Alexander The Great really die? www.channel4.com/programmes/a... #ancientautopsy #channel4 #infectiousdiseases Photo credit: Yeti Television @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
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Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Can I tell you how very proud I am of the new series we have on TV tonight? It’s on at 9pm, it’s called ANCIENT AUTOPSY, and it’s on More4. Tonight, we explore the evidence of the death of the last Pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra.
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All Things Tudors @allthingstudors.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I absolutely loved Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb’s Tudor Crisis Management course! Be sure to check out her website for this course and others like it—I can’t wait to see what’s next! @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Read more on IG! @allthingstudors 📸: Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb
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Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I'm enjoying listening to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social on "British Scandal"! Dispelling some old myths about Anne Boleyn, and putting forward a fascinating new theory about Mark Smeaton. I'd recommend giving this a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/1lkU...
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Anne Boleyn | Why Anne is Still Living Rent-Free in our Heads | 4
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The Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This intervew with Dr. Noah Charney by @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social in her "Not Just the Tudors" podcast is well worth your attention. Georgio Vasari shaped how we understand art history today and an understanding of his life and work is therefore very important. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Vasari: Inventor of Artistic Genius
Podcast Episode · Not Just the Tudors · 08/07/2025 · 1h 4m
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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In 1518 one woman's mysterious dance sparked an epidemic, leading 400 people to dance wildly for weeks. Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr. Lynneth J. Miller Renberg to find out more about the bizarre Dancing Plague: podfollow.com/not-just-the... @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social #Tudors #podcast
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Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Thank you!
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I feel bound to point out that Robert Prevost holds dual American/Peruvian citizenship, and also that he's the first US pope in history. Pope Francis was (Latin) American.
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Simon Beale @spbeale.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A thread of all the posters we’ve created for our department to show the insight of historians. Some are in our curriculum and other’s have valuable insight that can help students’ understanding of the past and the discipline of history. 🧵
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Dr Melita Thomas @melitat.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Are you listening to the fantastic Katharine of Aragon Legacy Lectures, organised by @drowenemmerson.bsky.social and @onthetudortrail.bsky.social ? I just heard the very thought-provoking lecture by @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social on recovering lost voices in historical practice.
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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In today's Not Just the Tudors podcast, @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social and biographer Laurence Bergreen discuss Christopher Columbus's four perilous voyages and the devastating impact on indigenous populations of one of history's most debated figures: podfollow.com/not-just-the... #History #podcast
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Kim Connor @theotherkim.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Very excited that my conversation with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social about Margaret Baker's recipe books is now out on Not Just the Tudors #FoodHistory 🗃️ 🍽️
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Not Just the Tudors: How to Run a Stuart Household
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb delves into the world of Stuart-era recipe books, in which medicine, cookery and women's roles combine in fascinating ways. She discovers how these volumes were far...
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Lydia Monks @lydiamonks.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My offering for World Book Day is another book for the world! Six Queens is all you need to know about the iconic Tudor Queens. With a foreword by @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social. Enjoy your day whatever you are doing. I’m busy working on a new book 👑 @theagencybooks.bsky.social
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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Not Just the Tudors: @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social and @drjoannepaul.bsky.social explore Robert Dudley's life while Dr. Tracey Wedge reveals his extraordinary wardrobe: podfollow.com/not-just-the... #Tudors #Podcast
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Lydia Monks @lydiamonks.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
My new book, Six Queens is published on 6th March with foreword by @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Six-Queens-L...
A book cover featuring all six of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
New on The Writer’s Bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books and reading with the brilliant @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/mathewly...
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The writer's bookshelf: Suzannah Lipscomb
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Costa prize winner @jackfairweather.bsky.social will be launching his new book at Waterstones Piccadilly in London on Monday 3rd March and you can come! More info here: www.waterstones.com/events/jack-...
To the left, a picture of Jack Fairweather - dark hair, grey shirt. To the right, the cover of his new book, The Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle to Bring the Nazis to Justice, in which a spotlight picks out a man, with a folder under his arm, facing the red-drenched gates of Auschwitz.
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Knew this was coming but still exciting: My 2021 interview with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social on an #earlymodern teen werewolf has been moved to BBC Sounds! You can hear us ponder children's fantasies, parental fears, and masculine aggression, all without ads. 😊 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Not Just the Tudors - An Early Modern Teenage Werewolf - BBC Sounds
An investigation into the Werewolf convictions of the 17th Century.
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Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I’ve had the privilege of reading this extraordinary book in draft. It’s an absolute MUST-READ from the bestselling, prize-winning author of The Volunteer.
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Helen @helenpins.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I signed up for #historyhit so I could watch @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social’s series about the Dissolution of the monasteries, for Year 12. I didn’t realise there were so many different programmes and series to watch, I think this could be dangerous for me #historyteacher
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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Lots of money was made by dissolving the monasteries in the 16thC (some of it used to endow the institution that pays most of my salary). The monks found work, but where did the nuns go? Fascinating #NotJustTheTudors pod from @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
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Dissolution of the Monasteries
Podcast Episode · Not Just the Tudors · 13/01/2025 · 52m
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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Catching up on Not Just the Tudors and delighted to hear the brilliant @thehistoriann.bsky.social discussing piracy and the Spanish Pacific with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social . More early modern #Pacifichistory, please! 🗃️ open.spotify.com/episode/75hT...
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Pirates of the Pacific & the Spanish Empire
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James G Clark @james-g-clark.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Great to see the climactic episode of History Hit's new Dissolution documentary. Glad to join @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social in November sunshine at Fountains Abbey: access.historyhit.com/a-world-torn...
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A World Torn Apart: The Dissolution of the Monasteries - 1 - Season 1 - History Hit
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb unravels one of the most profound transformations in Tudor society, when faith and politics collided: the dissolution of the monasteries. Over just four years in the 1530s,...
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Carol Ann Lloyd @shakeuphistory.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Lovely way to spend a chilly afternoon! Warm fire, brilliant course by #Suzannahlipscomb. And a bit of Tudor rebellion to keep things interesting. @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social #tudorcrisismanagement
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Robert Fingleton 🇮🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @robertfingleton.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
When you see the scale of his pillaging of the monasteries on a map like this, it's easy to see how he became so rich! 💷💷💷
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Tom Allright @tommya13.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Take a look at the NEW 2 part series I have had the pleasure of filming. A fascinating dive into The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th Century. All fronted by the wonderful @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social. Check it out on #HistoryHit
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Michael Wilde @wildemichaelh.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social and Professor Adrian Tinniswood OBE discuss Sir Christopher Wren in this episode of #NotJustTheTudors. open.spotify.com/episode/6oBH...
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Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
How devastating was the dissolution of the monasteries? How did the closure of 850 religious houses in four years affect ordinary people? The first part of our new series A World Torn Apart: The Dissolution of the Monasteries can now be streamed on History Hit. access.historyhit.com/a-world-torn...
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A World Torn Apart: The Dissolution of the Monasteries - 1 - Season 1 - History Hit
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb unravels one of the most profound transformations in Tudor society, when faith and politics collided: the dissolution of the monasteries. Over just four years in the 1530s,...
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 29/12/2024
Sure you've seen the famous #BayeuxTapestry, but have you seen it in all its sensational high-res thread-glory? Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...
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Explore the Bayeux Tapestry online - Bayeux Museum
For the first time, you will be able to freely explore the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene with a never seen quality of images !
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
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Undercover work for the Tudor and Stuart state
Robert Cecil and his father, William, the first Lord Burghley, greatest and most long-lasting ministers to two English monarchs, have not generally
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All About History @all-about-history.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Fascinating. Burial place of the Scrope family. One of Turner's many pictures of the Abbey:
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
27 Dec 1539: Anne of Cleves reaches #England #otd. She had left home on 26 Nov. (St. John's Oxford)
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Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Look at the utter breathtaking beauty of these ruins at Easby. They’ve inspired many artists, including Turner. But the story behind them is not pretty. NEW SERIES: it ‘A World Torn Apart: The Dissolution of the Monasteries’ coming very soon to History Hit TV.
The ruins of Easby Abbey in The Morning Mist.
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Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Now that 2024 is at its end, roll on 2025. #StoryofaMurder features among The Times’s 40 book picks for the coming year. Looking forward to an exciting 2025.
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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
This article depicts a battle ‘within the National Trust’ but RT2021Ltd or Restore Trust is a private company with 4 directors, The National Trust is a 129-year-old charity which has 5.5m members, all of whom have democratic voting rights. www.thetimes.com/article/26a1...
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Battle over National Trust decision not to restore ruined Clandon Park
Charity plans to showcase country house, which was gutted in a devastating 2015 blaze, as a fire-damaged shell but traditionalists demand it be restored
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Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Come on, guys. We can do this. If everyone who has watched this gave the price of a coffee, we’d hit the target.
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Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This wonderful charity does amazing work with children in Odisha, India. Please do have a watch of a video I made for them. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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Love the One's Winter 2024 Campaign
Our team in Odisha want to give our children the best winter wonderland experience but we also want to be …
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HistFest @histfest.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
NEW! Looking to try something a bit different in the new year? Why not sign up to our fascinating new online course? THE TITANIC: A HISTORY Setting the Titanic within its global & historical context, you’ll explore its multifaceted history & legend. Book now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-titani...
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A black and white image of the titanic, with the text:
The Titanic - A new online course
Start date: 5 Feb 2025
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Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
There is still more work to be done in getting women writers the support and recognition they deserve. Support our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge and help us open the doors to the writers of tomorrow, providing them with access to the tools and skills they need to share their stories and expertise.
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Lift up ALL women's voices: writing for everyone
The Women’s Prize for Fiction has shifted the dial and raised awareness of women’s writing over the last 29 years, but some women are still excluded from this progress. We want to inspire and support...
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