Shakespeare's Family: New Discoveries

Not Just the Tudors

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Did the women in Shakespeare’s life—his wife, sister, and daughters—shape his story more than we realise? Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Dr. Matthew Steggle to hear how new digital tools and rediscovered manuscripts uncover surprising evidence about Shakespeare’s family. Together, they explore whether the stories of these women were hidden on purpose or simply forgotten over time.

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Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice Smith. Edited and produced by Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

All music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.

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1:36.8	Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome to not just the Tudors from History Hit,
1:42.6	the podcast in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs, from Holbein to the Huguenose, from Shakespeare to Samarise.
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2:08.0	Thank you. in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors. In 1925, Virginia Woolf wrote of a woman whose artistic and intellectual ability,
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