{"id":2299,"date":"2021-09-10T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T09:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/stamford\/?p=716"},"modified":"2021-09-10T09:53:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T09:53:59","slug":"a-tale-of-two-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/highlights\/a-tale-of-two-williams\/09-2021","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oxford don, historian and broadcaster, Prof., Suzannah Lipscomb stops by in Stamford this month to deliver an engaging lecture on the Elizabethan world occupied by Shakespeare and William Cecil as part of the Lord Burghley 500th Anniversary Lecture Series…<\/h3>\n
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Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, Oxford historian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not of an age, but for all time. That was the compliment that fellow playwright Ben Johnson paid to William Shakespeare upon his death.The bard\u2019s legacy undoubtedly remains, still today woven through our vernacular through expressions like \u2018as luck would have it,\u2019 or \u2018all of a sudden,\u2019 or \u2018all that glistens is not gold,\u2019 or \u2018vanishing into thin air,\u2019 each of which was hewn from the pure genius of the poet and playwright.<\/p>\n

This month as part of the Lord Burghley 500th Anniversary Lecture Series, Oxford academic and broadcaster Prof., Suzannah Lipscomb visits Stamford to deliver her lecture, Shakespeare\u2019s World, which will compare and contrast the lives of these two extraordinary Elizabethans; William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and Shakespeare<\/p>\n

\u201cI was raised near to both Hampton Court Palace and Nonsuch Palace, and as I\u2008was completing my doctorate in life in C16th France, I\u2008undertook a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, working at the Royal Palaces to help curate \u2018Henry VIII: Heads & Hearts,\u2019 some elements of which are still there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surrounded by historic houses and Tudor influences as I was growing up. Street names in our town included Anne Boleyn Walk or Tudor Walk, and being surrounded by Tudor influences I couldn\u2019t help but assimilate them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHistoric houses like Burghley House or the Royal Palaces are really good resources that should be used to help people engage with history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey bring history to life, and so does a good broadcaster, one who is able to encourage you to feel empathy or to emotionally engage with history and its complex relationship with the specific politics of an age.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhilst working at Hampton Court Palace I was asked to record a couple of talking heads and contribute to the Time Team Special Henry VIII\u2019s Lost Palaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2008discovered that I loved broadcasting. It\u2019s really exciting to be able to reach so many people at the same time and to really engage with them. As fascinating as pursuing a career as a historian is, it can also be quite solidary in the respect of getting your head down and writing, or researching.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBroadcasting is the opposite and it also has the benefit of allowing you to get into places not normally accessible to the public, being able to see things which are normally, for reasons of conservatorship, off limits!\u201d<\/p>\n

Suzannah\u2019s TV\u2008credits include commentating on the Royal Wedding of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge in 2011, her Hidden Killers of the Post-War, Victorian &\u2008Georgian Home series, as well as the three-part docudrama Elizabeth I, and Walking Tudor England which is currently being broadcast on My5.<\/p>\n

In 2021 she also began a series of podcasts entitled Not Just The Tudors under the series History Hit Umbrella and the has written seven books including 2019\u2019s<\/p>\n

The Voices of N\u00eemes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc. In addition to presenting her lecture this month, Suzannah is also currently recording episodes for a forthcoming series of the long-running archaeology series Time Team, and alongside her co-presenters, she will be taking over from Tony Robinson for the return of the programme in 2022.<\/p>\n

For now though, Suzannah\u2019s attention is firmly fixed on Stamford\u2019s stately home.<\/p>\n

The academic both researches and writes all of the broadcast material she presents, and will contrast the lives of the famous, wealthy and feared courtier Burghley with the still relatively unknown playwright Shakespeare, using the two men as a prism through which to examine Elizabethan England\u2019s economic, social, religious, and cultural change.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would after all be wasteful not to use the setting of Burghley House to tell us much about both Shakespeare and Burghley.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suzannah Lipscomb\u2019s lecture will begin at 7pm and take place in St Martin’s Church, Stamford, PE9 2LF. Proceeds for this lecture will be made to the St Martin’s Church Conservation Trust. See www.burghley.co.uk.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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