Suzannah is an historian, author, broadcaster and award-winning academic. She has a double first in BA History and a distinction in her MSt in Historical Research from Lincoln College, Oxford and DPhil in History from Balliol College, Oxford, where she was a Jowett Senior Scholar. Her previous positions include Royal Historical Society Marshall Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, Research Curator at Hampton Court Palace and Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. Suzannah's books include 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII (2009) and A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England (2012).
Suzannah has published on Henry VIII; the Tudor court; gender, patriarchy and sexuality in early modern England and Europe, and heritage and public history. Suzannah is currently writing a book on the lives of women in sixteenth-century France
Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society 2012
Museums Association Museums + Heritage Award for Excellence in Education 2012 - for 'All the King's Fools', funded by the Wellcome Trust, in association with the Misfits, Foolscap Productions, Historic Royal Palaces, Past Pleasures, UEA and Oxford Brookes University
Wellcome Trust People Award (for £28,000) 2011 - for All the King's Fools: Rethinking Learning Disability at Hampton Court Palace
Arts and Humanities Research Council Knowledge Transfer Partnership Award: 'Humanities for the Creative Economy', 2011 - in association with Historic Royal Palaces and Kingston University
Suzannah's TV work includes: presenting Bloody Tales of the Tower (NatGeo), The Book Show (Sky Arts), Secret Lives (History, Canada) and Inside the World of Henry VIII (History, UK), and appearances on The One Show (BBC 1), The Great British Weather Show (BBC 1), GMTV (ITV), Museum Secrets (History, Canada), Martyrs for the Book (PBS), BBC News, ITV London and Globo-TV. As a royal historian, she commentated live from a studio at Buckingham Palace on the Royal Wedding for CTV. Suzannah was the historian on Time Team for four episodes in 2012 (Season 20, Channel 4) and often appears on Sky News Sunrise reviewing the papers. A second series of Bloody Tales for NatGeo and an authored history programme for BBC4 have been commissioned for 2013.
Radio work includes presenting BBC Radio 3's The Essay, presenter’s friend on BBC Radio 5 Live and LBC, and appearances on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme and Six O’Clock News, BBC Radio 5 Live, LBC, NPR and many local radio stations. Her journalism has appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, BBC History Magazine and History Today. She has been interviewed by many print journalists, as well as for radio and TV.
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 2012 - present
Consultant to Historic Royal Palaces and External Advisory Member on Historic Royal Palaces's Research Strategy Board
Director, Trustee and Governor of Epsom College
English, French, rather rusty Hindi
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