Alison Sim
{{Short description|English historian of the Tudor period}}
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Alison Sim (born 1961) is an English freelance historian and author, specialising in the Tudor period.
Biography
Sim was born in 1961.{{Cite web |title=Sim, Alison, 1961 |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068155.html |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Library of Congress}}
Sims lectures on Tudor food for the Mary Rose Trust and has worked as a guide at the Tower of London and Hampton Court Palace.Sim, Alison. (2002) Pleasures & Pastimes in Tudor England. Sutton Publishing. She has also featured on podcasts focusing on the Tudor period.{{Cite web |date=2018-06-21 |title=Episode 106: Midsummer in Tudor England - Renaissance English History Podcast |url=https://www.englandcast.com/2018/06/episode-106-midsummer-in-tudor-england/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2021-05-19 |title=Episode 165: A Tudor Easter - Renaissance English History Podcast |url=https://www.englandcast.com/easter/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |language=en-US}}
Sims has also published several books on the Tudor period. Her book Pleasures & Pastimes in Tudor England (1999) explored the ideal for the Tudor sportsman or gentlewoman, pastimes such as dancing, fashion, music, the theatre and reading, and how leisure was shaped by religious calendar customs.{{Cite journal |last=Key |first=Newton |date=2006 |title=Book review: Pleasures Pastimes in Tudor England, by Alison Sim |url=https://scholars.eiu.edu/en/publications/book-review-pleasures-pastimes-in-tudor-england-by-alison-sim |journal=International Journal of the History of Sport |volume=23 |access-date=13 April 2025}}{{Cite web |date=2017-02-14 |title=14 February - Valentine's Day |url=https://www.tudorsociety.com/14-february-valentines-day/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Tudor Society |language=en-gb}}{{Cite web |last=Ridgway |first=Claire |date=2015-02-17 |title=Shrove Tuesday, Pancakes and Lent - The Tudor Society |url=https://www.tudorsociety.com/shrove-tuesday-pancakes-lent/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Tudor Society |language=en-gb}} Her book The Tudor Housewife focused on marriage, childbirth, breastfeeding and the upbringing of children as well as how women were expected to manage businesses and household accounts in the period.{{Cite web |title=The Tudor Housewife |url=https://bitternbooks.co.uk/product/the-tudor-housewife/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Bittern Books |language=en-GB}}
Sim has written articles for magazines such as History Today.{{Cite web |date=5 May 2003 |title=The Royal Court and Progresses |url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/royal-court-and-progresses |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=History Today}}
Selected publications
- Food & Feast in Tudor England (1997)
- The Tudor Housewife (1998)
- Pleasures & Pastimes in Tudor England (1999){{Cite web |date=2021-04-08 |title=Tudor Pastimes |url=https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/blogs/tudor-pastimes/ |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Shakespeare Birthplace Trust}}
- Masters and Servants in Tudor England (2006)
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