Actress Suzannah Lipscomb HD Instagram Photos and Wallpapers June 2024

And… some good news. Remember the two girls who challenged their GCSE textbook? Well, they got an answer from the publisher. What can we learn from this? What happens when you challenge the dominant narrative and find it’s unjustified by the evidence? Things change.

It’s coming soon… My new online course about Henry VIII is for those who want to dig deep into Tudor history. It’s 16 weeks long and jam-packed with content and I can’t wait to share it with you. If you want to be the first to hear about it – and want to benefit from 15% off – pop your name on the waitlist on my website and you’ll hear more from me soon. Enrolment opens in the next few weeks. The early bird price is only available for those on the waitlist.

There is no agreed surviving portrait of Anne Boleyn from her lifetime. But there are candidates. And, in my latest TV show for History Hit, I explore one of the most tantalising possibilities: this drawing by Hans Holbein. We also examine the other faces of the Tudor court – in Holbein’s rendition as sweet and near as if they were yet alive. Do watch MEET THE TUDORS: HOLBEIN AT HENRY VIII’S COURT with me, now on @historyhit Red blouse (neatly matching the palace walls) by @katebartondesigns

Cracking day in the sunshine with this lovely group of people yesterday, touring the Tudor palace at Hampton Court. Can’t wait to see who’s coming on the tour in September! (Book with @andantetravels.)

Cracking day in the sunshine with this lovely group of people yesterday, touring the Tudor palace at Hampton Court. Can’t wait to see who’s coming on the tour in September! (Book with @andantetravels.)

It’s finally here! My new online course on Henry VIII – The Making of a Tyrant? – has opened for enrolment. I’m not saying that filming it was always straightforward! But having amassed so much knowledge about Henry VIII and his reign over the years that I’ve never been able to put into a one-hour lecture or a three-part TV series, I persevered. I want to share with you the thrill of engaging with primary sources and making up one’s own mind about what really happened ‘long ago in that land of mystery which we call the past’ (G.M. Trevelyan). And now I get to do just that. There’s so many things that we’ll be deciding together. Questions like: What drove the divorce crisis? Was Henry VIII the architect of the Reformation that happened in his name? Why did Anne Boleyn fall and what does her downfall tell us about politics at Henry VIII’s court? Was Henry’s magnificence a form of propaganda (and was it effective)? On his deathbed, was Henry VIII still controlling England’s destiny? And we’ll be thinking about the character of the king. Was Henry VIII ‘a bit of a booby and a bit of a baby’, as historian Geoffrey Elton once described him? Could he be ‘bounced into action’, as Eric Ives suggested? Or was it ‘hard for any man to rule him’, as Thomas More prophesied? In short, did Henry VIII become a tyrant? I’m inviting you to join me on a four-month journey. This course is jam-packed with video lectures, live Zoom sessions, and constant opportunities to engage with primary sources – the contemporary texts, portraits and stuff – so you can make up your own mind. Plus it comes with its own online community of fellow Tudor nerds. Join me for a deep dive into the life and times, the preoccupations and psychology of England’s infamous monarch, King Henry VIII. ENROLMENT IS NOW OPEN. Link in bio.