Sophie Bacchus-Waterman

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Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.

Photo of my copy of the Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York and the Wardrobe Accounts of Edward IV

Photo of Breeze Barrington, Estelle Paranque, and I discussing the Boleyn family

Photo of me giving my talk on Elizabeth Boleyn

Photo of the Dragon Hall in Norwich

Poster for my talk, "Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's Mother" at the Norwich History Festival on Monday the 20th of July 2026.

My copy of "The Ricardian", Volume 36

Cover of "Mary's Mother: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe" by Virginia Nixon

Photo of the Radcliffe Camera

Anne Neville depicted in the Rous Roll, c. 1483

Perkin Warbeck Entering London, Stories selected from the History of England, John Murray, 1854

SJC A.2.5 and MS 266, f. 132v

"The Lady Elizabeth Boleyn" recorded among the Baronesses who received scarlet livery (TNA LC 9/50, f. 188v)

My photo of Thomas Boleyn's memorial brass

19th-century depiction of Anne Neville

Goodreads review for "Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's Mother"

Lady of the Garter, 1534, Black Book of the Garter

Cover of "Ardent Queen: Margaret Anjou and the Lancastrian Heritage" by Jock Haswell

16th-century portrait of Elizabeth Woodville (RCIN 406785)

"Hever Rose" portrait of Anne Boleyn

Sketch of an unknown man by Hans Holbein, thought to depict George Boleyn

Photo of "Mary Boleyn: The Queen's Slandered Sister" by Sylvia Barbara Soberton and my book,"Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's Mother" next to each other on the shelf in Blackwell's in Oxford.

Photo of my book, "Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's Mother", next to "Mary Boleyn: The Queen's Slandered Sister" by Sylvia Barbara Soberton

Me holding a copy of "Mary Boleyn" by Sylvia Barbara Soberton

Cover of "Mary Boleyn: The Queen's Slandered Sister" by Sylvia Barbara Soberton

Henry VIII depicted in the Procession of Parliament Roll (1512), Trinity College, Cambridge, O.359

Screenshot of my Substack bio

Photo of the BL

Portrait of Margaret Beaufort by Maynard Vewicke, c. 1510, NPG L270

Getty Museum Collection, Ms. 114 (2016.7), fol. 23

Photo of my copy of "The Boleyn Curse" by Alexandra Walsh on a table, with a cup of tea beside it

Replica gold crown from the reign of Elizabeth I

Screenshot of Vincent's Goodreads review of "Elizabeth Boleyn"

Cover of "The Medici" by Paul Strathern

Anne Boleyn Commending the Princess Elizabeth to the Care of Matthew Parker (British Museum 1922,0209.29)

Cover of "Ladies-in-Waiting" by Dulcie M. Ashdown

Portrait of an unknown woman, formerly identified as Anne Boleyn (Condé Museum, PE 564)

Katherine of Aragon's ladies depicted in the 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll

Gent. Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 236, f. 1r

Photo of me holding "The Beheading Game" by Rebecca Lehmann

Detail from portrait of an unidentified woman, end of 16th century (Bodleian Library LP 56)

16th century portrait of Sir John Russell

My photo of Elizabeth Boleyn's ledger stone in the Garden Museum

John Hussee's letter to Lady Lisle in which he discussed Elizabeth Boleyn's funeral (TNA SP 3/12 f. 42)

My photo of St Mary's Church, now the Garden Museum

Detail of stained glass window, Long Melford Church, depicting Elizabeth Tylney

My photo of Elizabeth Boleyn's ledger stone in St Mary's Church in Lambeth

Portrait of Arthur Tudor (RCIN 403444)

Extract from Orsolya's Goodreads review for "Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's Mother"

Photo of Tom Quad in Christ Church College, Oxford

Binding of Bodleian Library MS. Duke Humfrey d. 2

Photo of the cover of "The Boleyn Curse" by Alexandra Walsh

Allegorical painting of Queen Elizabeth I with figures symbolizing Father Time and Death (c. 1610)

Cecily of York depicted in the Royal Window at Canterbury Cathedral

Photograph of my book, "Elizabeth Boleyn" on the shelf in Blackwell's in Oxford

Detail from the Hours of Joanna I of Castile (BL Add. MS 35313) f. 26r

19th century depiction of Anne Neville from "Biographical Sketches of the Queens of England", edited by Mary Howitt

"King Henry VII Presenting Lady Catherine Gordon to His Queen", 19th century postcard by Howard Davis

Robert Cranwell’s letter to Thomas Cromwell (TNA SP 1/144 f. 99r)

My photo of Thomas Boleyn's memorial brass