Tracy Borman

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = Professor

| name = Tracy Borman

| honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|FRHistS|FSA|size=100%}}

| birth_name = Tracy Joanne Borman

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|1|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England

| occupation = {{hlist|Historian|author}}

| office = Chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University

| term_start = 1 July 2022

| term_end =

| 1blankname = {{nowrap|Vice-Chancellor}}

| 1namedata = Peter Neil
Andrew Gower

| predecessor = Judith Mayhew Jonas

| successor =

| residence = New Malden, London, England

| alma_mater = University of Hull

| image = 250px

| caption = Borman in 2024

}}

Tracy Joanne Borman {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|FRHistS|FSA|size=100%}}{{cite web |title=List of Fellows (February 2024) |url=https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/22170322/Fellows_February-2024.xlsb.pdf |website=Royal Historical Society |access-date=15 June 2024}} (born 1 January 1972){{Who's Who | title=Borman, Tracy | id = U284510 | volume = 2017 | edition = November 2016 online | access-date = 29 November 2017 }} 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.{{Cite web |title=Chancellor & Vice-Chancellor {{!}} Bishop Grosseteste University |url=https://www.bgu.ac.uk/about-bgu/chancellor |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=www.bgu.ac.uk |language=en-GB}}

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.General Register Office of England and Wales, Births, March quarter 1972, Lincoln, Vol 3b, page 983{{cite news|last1=Chapman|first1=Kate|title=In time with the Tudors…|url=https://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/posts/view/in-time-with-the-tudors|access-date=12 September 2018|work=Lincolnshire Life|date=January 2014|archive-date=13 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913040035/https://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/posts/view/in-time-with-the-tudors|url-status=dead}} She studied and taught history at the University of Hull, where she was awarded a PhD in 1997. Her doctoral thesis was titled Sir Francis Vere in the Netherlands, 1589-1603: a re-evaluation of his career as Sergeant Major General of Elizabeth I’s troops.{{cite web |title=Tracy Borman |url=https://www.hrp.org.uk/tracy-borman/#gs.j6yxpf |website=Historic Royal Palaces |access-date=17 December 2024}}

Career

Elizabeth's Women was serialised and became a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in September 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mq4m1#synopsis|title= Tracy Borman: Elizabeth's Women|work=Book of the Week|publisher=BBC Radio 4|date= 27 September 2014|access-date=22 November 2009}} Borman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, also in September 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mjn15|title= Elizabeth I's attitude to women|work=Woman's Hour|publisher=BBC Radio 4|date= 14 September 2009|access-date=7 September 2016}}

In 2013, she was appointed Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces alongside Lucy Worsley.{{cite web|url=https://www.tracyborman.co.uk/home-1|title=Biography|access-date=27 January 2021}} In 2024 she became Historic Royal Palaces' Chief Historian.{{cite web |title=@TracyBorman: "I'm delighted to announce that I've been appointed Chief Historian for @HRP_palaces Looking forward to uncovering many more stories from the palaces' incredible history" |url=https://x.com/TracyBorman/status/1868933132847845580 |website=X |access-date=17 December 2024}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Tracy Borman |url=https://www.bardeum.com/tracy-borman |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=BARDEUM |language=en}}

Honours

In February 2021 Borman was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.{{cite web |title=18 February Ballot Results |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/2021/02/18-february-ballot-results/ |website=Society of Antiquaries of London |date=18 February 2021 |access-date=12 December 2024}} On 14 June 2024 Borman was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the King's Birthday Honours for services to heritage.{{cite web |title=Birthday Honours List 2024 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-kings-birthday-honours-list-2024/birthday-honours-list-2024-pm-list-transparency-data-html |website=UK Government |access-date=15 June 2024}}

Personal life

She and her husband, whom she married at the Tower of London, live in New Malden, southwest London.{{cite web | url=http://www.homesandantiques.com/feature/antiques/people/my-favourite-antique-tracy-borman | title=My favourite antique: Tracy Borman | work=Homes & Antiques | publisher= Immediate Media Company|date=18 August 2016 | access-date=7 September 2016 | author=Hancock, Alice}}

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)[http://www.economist.com/node/21616881/print See review in The Economist]
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

[http://www.tracyborman.co.uk/ Personal website]
[https://www.hrp.org.uk/tracy-borman/ Biography on Royal Historic Palaces official website]
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Category:1972 births

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century English women writers

Category:21st-century English historians

Category:21st-century British historians

Category:Alumni of the University of Hull

Category:Academics of the University of Hull

Category:British women historians

Category:English non-fiction writers

Category:English women non-fiction writers

Category:English women novelists

Category:Historians of monarchy and royalty