HistoryExtra
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items: Why did Henry VIII send Anne Boleyn to the block?
items: 15 minutes of fame | Suzannah Lipscomb chooses Marguerite de Navarre
items: 15 minutes of fame: Marguerite de Navarre, royal influencer
items: Did Thomas Seymour sexually abuse the teenage Princess Elizabeth?
items: History in 2021, with Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb
items: A very brief history of witches by Suzannah Lipscomb
items: Suzannah Lipscomb on women’s lives in Reformation France
items: The women who wouldn’t be silenced in Reformation France
items: Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s 'Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home'
items: The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers

Why did Henry VIII send Anne Boleyn to the block?
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date: 2024-11-13T10:11:14.000Z
creator: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb
subject: Period
subject: Tudor
subject: British queens
subject: Tudor kings and queens
description: Was she ensnared by a conspiracy, the victim of her own loose tongue, or simply guilty as charged? Suzannah Lipscomb tries to unearth the real reason why Henry VIII sent his second wife, Anne Boleyn, to the block
encoded: On the morning of 19 May 1536, Anne Boleyn climbed the scaffold erected on Tower Green, within the walls of the Tower of London. She gave a speech praising the goodness and mercy of the king, and asked those gathered to pray for her. Then she removed her fine, ermine-trimmed gown, and knelt down – and the expensive French executioner that Henry VIII had ordered swung his sword and “divided her neck at a blow”. Her death is so familiar to us that it is hard to imagine how shocking it would have been: the queen of England executed on charges of adultery, incest and conspiring the king’s death. And not just any queen: this was the woman for whom Henry VIII had abandoned his wife of nearly 24 years, waited seven long years to wed, and even revolutionised his country’s church. Yet just three years later her head was off – and the reason for her death remains one of the great mysteries of English history. To this day, historians cannot agree why she had to die. Had Henry and Anne’s relationship gone into terminal decline, prompting Henry to invent the charges against his wife? Was Thomas Cromwell responsible for Anne’s demise? Or was she indeed guilty of the charges laid against her? Evidence is limited – but there is enough to appear to support several very different conclusions. A timeline of the days before Anne Boleyn's execution There are a number of undisputed facts relating to Anne’s fall. On Sunday 30 April 1536 Mark Smeaton, a musician from the queen’s household, was arrested; he was then interrogated at Cromwell’s house in Stepney. On the same evening the king postponed a trip with Anne to Calais, planned for 2 May. Read more | He was the court musician who condemned Anne Boleyn: but was Mark Smeaton telling the truth? The next day, 1 May, Smeaton was moved to the Tower. Henry attended the May Day jousts at Greenwich but left abruptly on horseback with a small group of intimates. These included Sir Henry Norris, a personal body servant and one of his closest fri…

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15 minutes of fame | Suzannah Lipscomb chooses Marguerite de Navarre
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date: 2022-06-27T15:00:42.000Z
creator: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Tudor
subject: 15 minutes of fame
description: As part of our series exploring lost or lesser-known figures from history who deserve their 15 minutes of fame, Emily Briffett interviews Professor Suzannah Lipscomb about the life of Marguerite de Navarre
encoded: Who was Marguerite de Navarre? Born in 1492, Marguerite de Navarre was the daughter of the Count and Countess of Angoulême, the sister of King François (Francis) I of France, and later, the wife of Henri II of Navarre. Though we are referring to her as Marguerite de Navarre, she also goes by several other names, including Marguerite d’Alençon (thanks to her first marriage to the Duke of Alençon), Marguerite d’Angoulême and Marguerite de Valois. De Navarre was a “key player in politics and diplomacy” at Francis I’s court, explains Lipscomb, and left a legacy as “a leading figure in intellectual, religious, and literary circles.” Marguerite de Navarre's life In the place of Francis I’s wife Claude, who spent a lot of time away from court life due to multiple pregnancies, Marguerite was a key hostess of entertainment at the royal court. It is, however, for her political and religious interventions that she is most remembered. Marguerite was “a kind of proto-Protestant, who really cared about the hypocrisy and the corruption and the abuses in the Church,” explains Lipscomb. Despite remaining a Catholic herself, Marguerite played a significant role in the Reformation, because she believed that people should be able to make up their own minds about faith, says Lipscomb. To facilitate this fight for freedom of belief, Marguerite influenced her brother Francis to put people with more reformed ideas into ecclesiastical positions, and was a patron for several people who were considered heretics. Lipscomb also credits Marguerite for her writing, which covered significant themes like religion and the mistreatment of women. Her posthumously-published collection of stories, the Heptaméron, explored the patriarchy and how it affected women at the time. It is often thought that Marguerite had drawn on her own experiences of maltreatment by men – a theory supported by Lipscomb ­– but regardless of her inspiration, says Lipscomb, the works she created were highly influential and brav…

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15 minutes of fame: Marguerite de Navarre, royal influencer
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date: 2022-06-27T14:41:57.000Z
creator: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Tudor
subject: 15 minutes of fame
description: Suzannah Lipscomb reveals why she thinks 16th-century royal influencer Marguerite de Navarre deserves to be better remembered today
encoded: It’s the HistoryExtra podcast’s 15th birthday! To celebrate, we’ve asked 15 historians to nominate a figure from history they think deserves their ‘15 minutes of fame’. In this episode, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb nominates Marguerite de Navarre. Speaking with Emily Briffett, she reveals how this royal woman, sister of French King Francis I, had a major influence on both the Renaissance and Reformation. Browse more episodes about figures from history who deserve 15 minutes of fame

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Did Thomas Seymour sexually abuse the teenage Princess Elizabeth?
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date: 2022-06-13T10:00:46.000Z
creator: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb
subject: Elizabethan
subject: Period
subject: Tudor
subject: Evergreen
subject: HistoryExtra Academy
subject: HistoryExtra Academy Elizabethans course
subject: Royal children
subject: Tudor kings and queens
description: Was the teenage Princess Elizabeth sexually abused by her stepfather, Thomas Seymour? Evidence shows that Thomas Seymour asked the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth to marry him, months before his eventual marriage to Katherine Parr, Henry VIII’s widow. Historian Suzannah Lipscomb considers the evidence…
encoded: Elizabeth I may have been the one of England’s longest reigning monarchs but, from her very first breath to the day she died, Elizabeth I was surrounded by enemies who threatened her crown and her life. There is an allegation that the teenage Princess Elizabeth was sexually abused by Thomas Seymour after Henry VIII’s death in January 1547. Seymour was the brother of one of her stepmothers, Jane Seymour, and the husband of another, Katherine Parr. So what’s the evidence and did it happen? Nearly everything we know about this case comes from Elizabeth’s servants. Her governess, Kat Ashley, and Thomas Parry, her ‘cofferer’, or accountant, testified in response to a Privy Council investigation in 1549 into whether Seymour tried to marry Elizabeth without the council’s consent. Watching Becoming Elizabeth? Find out more about the real history that inspired the drama: The real history behind Becoming Elizabeth Elizabeth I: your guide to her life and rule, plus 7 facts you might not know What was Thomas Seymour's relationship with Elizabeth? Here are the facts as best we know them. Thomas Seymour asked the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth to marry him by letter in February 1547, within a month of her father, Henry VIII’s, death. Seymour probably believed that marrying Elizabeth would increase his hold on power; his brother, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, had just been made Lord Protector, and the ambitious Thomas was probably envious of Edward’s position. Elizabeth rejected his proposal elegantly, also by letter, saying she was too young (she was 13 years old; he, at 38, was 25 years older than she) and would be in mourning for her father for two years. Within a month or so of receiving her rejection, Thomas Seymour married the queen dowager Katherine Parr, Henry VIII’s widow and Elizabeth’s stepmother. Katherine had been in love with him since before her marriage to Henry, but it is possible that Thomas married her to get closer to Elizabeth. At almost exactly this time,…

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History in 2021, with Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb
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date: 2021-08-31T11:41:45.000Z
creator: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb
subject: 21st Century
subject: Membership
subject: Period
description: Public historians Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb explore how we should make sense of studying the past in 2021
encoded: Sixty years ago EH Carr’s groundbreaking book, What is History?, explored how we should study the past. Now his great-granddaughter, Helen Carr, has teamed up with Suzannah Lipscomb to edit a new volume, What is History, Now?. Here, they discuss the importance and challenges of writing history in the 21st century. Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb are the editors of What is History, Now? (Orion, 2021) Buy now on Bookshop.org Buy now on Amazon Buy now on Waterstones

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A very brief history of witches by Suzannah Lipscomb
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date: 2020-10-27T13:00:15.000Z
creator: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb
subject: Medieval
subject: Period
subject: Stuart
subject: Tudor
subject: Halloween
subject: Witches
description: Between 1482 and 1782, thousands of people across Europe – most of them women – were accused of witchcraft and subsequently executed. But why were so many innocent people suspected of such a crime? Historian and broadcaster Suzannah Lipscomb explores the history of witches...
encoded: Witches are everywhere. In fairytales, fantasy and satire, they appear time and again as a versatile synonym for evil and transgression. But, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, men and women of both high and low status believed in witches’ ubiquity in a far more disturbing way. Lord chief justice Anderson noted in 1602: “The land is full of witches… they abound in all places” – not as a symbol or figure of fun, but as a deadly threat to life, livelihood and divine order. 10 of Britain’s most infamous witch trials Witches in numbers: how many people were killed? The large-scale persecution, prosecution and execution of witches in these centuries was an extraordinary phenomenon. It is also an episode of European history that has spawned many myths and much inaccuracy. Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code is one of the purveyors of such erroneous hype, stating: “The church burned at the stake an astounding 5 million women”, which would be astounding if true. The actual numbers are far lower, but still striking: between 1482 and 1782, around 100,000 people across Europe were accused of witchcraft, and some 40–50,000 were executed. Listen | Historian Ronald Hutton reveals how the witch has been a symbol of fear across the globe for more than 2,000 years Neither were witches (with the exception of some targeted by the Spanish Inquisition) generally persecuted by the church. Although belief in witches was orthodox doctrine, following Exodus 22.18, the 16th and 17th-century witch trials were the result of witchcraft becoming a crime under law, and witches were prosecuted by the state. In England, witchcraft became a crime in 1542, a statute renewed in 1562 and 1604. As such, most witches across Europe received the usual penalty for murder – hanging (though in Scotland and under the Spanish Inquisition witches were burned). Conjuring up the dead: Helen Duncan and her ectoplasm spirits Male witches Nor were all witches women – men could be witches too. Across Europe, 70–80 per c…

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Suzannah Lipscomb on women’s lives in Reformation France
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date: 2019-09-16T14:57:02.000Z
creator: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Stuart
subject: Tudor
description: Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Dan Jones about the lives of women in 16th-century France
encoded: Dr Suzannah Lipscomb talks to her fellow historian Dan Jones about her latest book, The Voices of Nîmes, which offers a fascinating window into sex and morality and the lives of women in 16th-century France. What was the Reformation?

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The women who wouldn’t be silenced in Reformation France
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date: 2019-01-24T07:07:13.000Z
creator: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb
subject: Membership
subject: Tudor
subject: Period
description: Tales of wives shaming errant husbands, brides forcing lovers to marry them and maidservants taking their rapists to court emerge from Suzannah Lipscomb’s research into the female residents of Reformation France. So, she asks, does this mean that women in 16th-century Europe wielded more power than we previously thought?
encoded: In December 1600, a French maidservant called Marguerite Brueysse claimed that her master, Anthoine Bonnet, had made her pregnant. Anthoine, who was probably in his fifties or sixties, was an influential man. When summoned to the consistory (a sort of Huguenot church court) in the city of Nîmes in Languedoc to answer the accusation, Anthoine denied everything and called Marguerite a whore. He also claimed that she was pregnant by cobbler Andre Fauchier, who lived nearby. Before leaving, Anthoine even displayed a declaration Marguerite had apparently made before a magistrate assigning paternity to Fauchier. What was the Reformation? But that wasn’t the end of the matter. The consistory wanted to know more, and asked Marguerite for her story. She initially said that Anthoine had “persuaded and induced her by words and promises” to have sex with him and promised her 50 écus (which he never gave her) if she would blame her pregnancy on Fauchier. The consistory asked her – as a test of truth – if she would repeat her accusations to her master. She said she would. Read more from the February 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine here, including: Songs of the Holocaust (exclusive to The Library) A week later, the two came face-to-face and, in deference to his status, the consistory allowed Anthoine to cross-examine Marguerite. He told her to tell the truth “according to God and her conscience”. She replied that, “according to God and her conscience, she had been known carnally” and made pregnant by him. He enquired where he had known her first and how he had persuaded her. She replied that it was “one day when she was taking excrement out to the ditch in Bonnet’s garden” when he had ordered her into the stable and there “threw her on a pile of rye where he knew her by force, putting a handkerchief in her mouth to stop her from shouting”. In response, Anthoine disparaged Marguerite’s sexual reputation and suggested that her brother had made her accuse him. She denied having se…

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Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s 'Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home'
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date: 2016-05-23T10:06:31.000Z
creator: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb
subject: 20th Century
subject: General Modern
subject: Period
subject: Housing
description: In the 1950s, following long years of austerity and sacrifice, ordinary Britons were suddenly better off than ever. Many used their newfound spending power to embrace both consumerism and modernism. This was an optimistic age of new materials, such as plastics and bright colours. But, as Dr Suzannah Lipscomb outlines in Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home, not all the items Britons purchased were as well designed as they might have been – and some were downright dangerous
encoded: BBC History Magazine's TV editor, Jonathan Wright, caught up with her to find out more… Q: We all tend to think of the home in the post-1945 era as rather safer than in years previous but they may not have been as safe as we think? A: That’s right. This is the 1950s and the house looks like something one can absolutely identify, it looks like the houses of my grandparents, and it’s full of things we still have around. One of the astonishing things about this is that so much [of what we see] is familiar yet it is dangerous. In fact, some of the things that come out of this episode do constitute health and safety warnings today, things that we should all be aware of. Q: What sorts of dangers are we talking about? A: We’ve got seven hidden killers in this programme, including chemistry sets, plastics in the home, carbon monoxide that comes from having heaters or boilers in the bathroom, factory-farmed chickens, labour-saving devices – all manner of things. Q: Can you tell us more about some of these dangers? A: For example, they used to put the gas boiler or heater in the bathroom. The real danger of this is the bathroom is quite often a sealed room and, when the boiler is at work, if the fossil fuels don’t burn off completely it produces gases that go back into the room. And if there’s not enough oxygen, rather than forming carbon dioxide they form carbon monoxide, which is this odourless, colourless, tasteless, completely invisible – and deadly – gas. You can be lying in a bath feeling gently lulled, you think, by the warmth of the water, and you’re feeling a bit dozy. In fact, what’s happening is the gas enters your bloodstream and you’re essentially suffocated from the inside – absolutely terrifying. There was also in the 1950s a real craze for chemistry sets, especially among little boys. So what do you want from a chemistry set? You want things that can explode and make colourful flames. There are things in these chemistry sets such as copper sulphate, which can …

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The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers
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date: 2016-05-19T14:00:21.000Z
creator: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb
subject: First World War
subject: General Modern
subject: Membership
subject: Period
subject: Naval battles
description: Admiral Lord West describes a crucial First World War naval clash, while Suzannah Lipscomb tells us about her new BBC documentary: Hidden Killers of the Post-war Home
encoded: As we approach its centenary, Admiral Lord West describes a First World War naval clash between Britain and Germany that he believes decided the outcome of the conflict. Meanwhile, we speak to historian Suzannah Lipscomb about how technological innovations could be lethal in 1950s homes

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