Dr Suzannah Lipscomb is a senior lecturer and coordinator of the history program at New College of the Humanities in London, and also holds the position of lecturer in early modern history at the University of East Anglia. She has appeared on BBC's "The One Show", ITV's "GMTV", Channel 4's "Time Team" and BBC Radio 4's "Today" program, presented "The Essay" on BBC Radio 3 and co-presented "Inside the World of Henry VIII" on the History Channel. Her new three-part series on the Tower airs on National Geographic in spring 2012.

She is the author of "1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII" and "A Visitor's Companion to Tudor England", co-author of "Henry VIII: 500 Facts", and frequently writes for History Today and BBC History Magazine. For three years she was a research curator at Historic Royal Palaces, working at Hampton Court Palace; she is now a consultant to Historic Royal Palaces and a member of their research strategy board.