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Tracy Joanne Borman (born 1 January 1972) is a historian and author from Scothern, Lincolnshire, England. She is most widely known as the author of Elizabeth's Women, a portrait-gallery of the powerful women who influenced Queen Elizabeth I. In July 2022 Borman was made Chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln. Early life and education Borman was born in 1972 in Lincoln, and brought up in the nearby village of Scothern. She was educated at Scothern Primary School (now Ellison Boulters Academy), William Farr School, Welton, and Yarborough School (now Lincoln Castle Academy), Lincoln. She studied and taught history at the University of Hull, where she was awarded a PhD in 1997. Career Elizabeth's Women was serialised and became a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in September 2009. Borman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, also in September 2009.In 2013, she was appointed Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces alongside Lucy Worsley.In 2021, Borman also authored an immersive audiovisual step inside a story walking tour for Kensington Gardens entitled Tales of a Mistress in the Georgian Court on the BARDEUM mobile app. Personal life She and her husband, whom she married at the Tower of London, live in New Malden, southwest London. Published works Fiction The King's Witch (2018) The Devil's Slave (2019) The Fallen Angel (2020)Non-fiction Henrietta Howard: King's Mistress, Queen's Servant, Jonathan Cape and Vintage (2007) Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen, Jonathan Cape and Vintage (2010) Matilda: Queen of the Conqueror, Jonathan Cape and Vintage (2011) The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings 1066–2011 (with Alison Weir, Kate Williams and Sarah Gristwood) (2011) ISBN 978-0-09-194377-6 Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction, Jonathan Cape and Vintage (2013) The Story of the Tower of London, Merrell Thomas Cromwell: The Hidden Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant. Hodder and Stoughton (2015) The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty, Hodder and Stoughton (2016) Henry VIII: And the Men Who Made Him, Hodder and Stoughton (2019) Crown and Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II, Hodder and Stoughton (2021) Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History, Hodder and Stoughton (2023)References External links Personal website Biography on Royal Historic Palaces official website Tracy Borman at IMDb. Discover the Tracy Borman popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Tracy Borman books.

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    A Marriage of Fortune

    Anne O'Brien

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    Capital Crimes

    Max Décharné

    Over seven centuries London has changed dramatically from walled medieval settlement to bustling modern metropolis. But throughout its history there has been one inescapable const...

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    The First Bohemians

    Vic Gatrell

    The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden the creative heart of Georgian London from Wolfson Prizewinning author Vic GatrellSHORTLISTED FOR THE ...

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    The Cistercian World

    Pauline Matarasso

    The Cistercian Order was born in Burgundy at the start of the twelfth century as a movement of radical renewal an Order that survives to this day with the greater part of its writ...

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    Sir Francis Drake

    Dr John Sugden

    How well do you know the life of one of Britain’s great maritime heroes? Discover the truth behind a man who remains a legendary figure of history more than four hundred years afte...

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    Shieldmaiden

    Marianne Whiting

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    Restoration

    Tim Harris

    The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration...

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    The Damask Rose

    Carol McGrath

    'You lay hands on a princess of the realm? It is treason.''But this princess disobeys her King. Treason indeed.'A beloved wife. A hated queen. A journey to her destiny . . . If you...

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    The Silken Rose

    Carol McGrath

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