[7] She has written and edited a number of books, presented numerous historical documentaries on TV and is host of the Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit.

[16][17][18][19] In 2009, she was awarded her Doctorate of Philosophy from Oxford, with a thesis entitled Maids, Wives, and Mistresses: Disciplined Women in Reformation Languedoc.

[21] While completing her thesis, she worked as a curator at Hampton Court Palace, where she was responsible for organising a series of exhibitions held throughout the spring and summer of 2009 to mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII of England's accession to the throne.

[27][28] In 2012, Lipscomb was awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize[29] by the Sixteenth Century Society for her journal article "Crossing Boundaries: Women's Gossip, Insults, and Violence in Sixteenth-Century France", in French History (Vol.

[14] In 2021, Lipscomb was awarded a Special Commendation by the Social History Society for her book, The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc.

[38] The series was designed to give "tabloid treatment of historical icons",[39] and includes an episode where Lipscomb and co-host Lucy Worsley "revel in these raunchy titbits" about Henry VIII's love life.

[42][43] In May 2013, Lipscomb appeared in The Last Days of Anne Boleyn on BBC Two, which featured other historians and historical novelists, including David Starkey, Philippa Gregory, and Hilary Mantel.

[47][48] However, the Radio Times stated that "Dr Suzannah Lipscomb can manage the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn perfectly well all by herself [without 'ropey reconstructions'].

[55] Writing for the Daily Telegraph, Australian critic Clive James gave Hidden Killers of the Edwardian Home a positive review, "principally because Ms Lipscomb was almost as fascinating as her subject".

[57][58] On 27 October 2015, Lipscomb joined Matthew Sweet, Marina Warner, Larushka Ivan-zadeh, Claire Nally, and Catherine Spooner, to talk about witchcraft and witch-hunting, in history, film, and politics on the BBC Radio programme Free Thinking.

[65][66] On 13 December 2016, she appeared as a contestant on Series 6 of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip,[67] partnered with David Harper, against Kate Williams and Catherine Southon.

[77][78][79] On 13 January 2018, Lipscomb appeared as a contestant on an academic version of Pointless Celebrities, partnered with performance poet John Cooper Clarke, where they reached the head-to-head round.

On 3 April 2018, in Episode 6, she visited County Down, where she learnt about Castle Ward's starring role in the TV adaptation of Game of Thrones, and made swords with the show's armourer.

[86] Over four weeks in March 2019, Lipscomb, with Dan Jones and engineer Rob Bell, presented London: 2000 Years of History, for Channel 5 (UK).

[98] In May 2016, Lipscomb was one of 300 prominent historians, including Simon Schama and Niall Ferguson, who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian, telling voters that if they chose to leave the European Union (EU) on 23 June, they would be condemning Britain to irrelevance.

[99][100] In January 2022, Lipscomb was one of over 310 writers and publishers, including Bernardine Evaristo and Robert Macfarlane, who asked the House of Lords to vote down the government's Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court Bill in a letter to The Times, entitled Freedom to Protest.