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New From HistoryHit online streaming service:

“Professor Suzannah Lipscomb goes in search of the truth about Lady Jane Grey,
the young Tudor claimant who was Queen of England for less than 2 weeks.
Moving beyond the popular image of Jane as a hapless victim … Suzannah challenges the mythology surrounding Jane.”

I was honored to participate in the filming of this new two-part documentary filmed in July 2025.

Episode One premiered 3 April 2026 on HistoryHit.com. Episode Two will premiere on 23 April 2026.

HistoryHit.com is a subscription-only online streaming service offering high-quality documentaries hosted by leading experts on a wide variety of topics in history.

A Video of the Restoration and Conservation of
the Edwards Portrait of Lady Jane Grey Dudley

Julian Baumgartner at Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration (Chicago)
has now posted a video of the restoration and conservation process for the ‘Edwards’ Portrait of Lady Jane Grey Dudley.
Many thanks to Julian for his amazing work! Check out the other fascinating videos on his channel, as well!

Lady Jane Grey Dudley: Fact or Fiction?

A lecture presented to the staff and volunteers at Bradgate Park,
the Leicestershire seat of the Grey Marquesses of Dorset
and Jane Grey’s childhood home.

Queen Jane’s Proclamation of Accession of 1553
and Gendering of the English Monarchy

A later re-recording of a lecture first presented to
The Society of Antiquaries of London
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
on 4 April 2024

Searching for a Portrait of Jane Grey Dudley,
England’s Nine Days Queen of 1553

A later re-recording of a lecture first presented to
The Society of Antiquaries of London
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
on 4 April 2024

England’s Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey

Produced in 2017 by Darlow Smithson Productions for BBC4 UK, with Dr Helen Castor as presenter. I appear as an “on-screen talking head expert” throughout all three episodes.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Radio and Podcast Interviews

The Aftermath: The Death of Lady Jane Grey
on The Alarmist

The Alarmist is a podcast series hosted by Rebecca Delgado-Smith and asks “Who is to blame for history’s greatest tragedies?”

Lady Jane Grey: an Interview with Dr. John Stephan Edwards
on Doth Protest Too Much

Doth Protest Too Much is a podcast series on church history and how the theology of the 16th-century Reformers can inform us today. It is hosted by Episcopal priest Rev. Andrew Christiansen along with Stephen Burnett
and Rev. James Rickenbaker.

The Rise and Fall of Lady Jane Grey
on Nightlife

An interview on the Australia
Broadcasting Corporation’s Nightlife
radio program with hosts Suzanne Hill and Philip Clark.