Biography:
Diarmaid MacCulloch, DD, FBA, FSA, FRHistS, FRSL, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, Fellow of Campion Hall and of St Cross College, Oxford, and prize-winning author, has written extensively on the sixteenth century and beyond it. His History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (Penguin/Allen Lane) and the BBC TV series based on it first appeared in 2009; the book won the Cundill Prize, then the world’s largest prize for history, in 2010. His three-part TV series for BBC2, How God made the English, aired in March 2012, and his BBC2 series, Sex and the Church, aired in early 2015. He has written Silence: a Christian History (2013) and his collected essays on the Reformation appeared as All Things New: Writings on the Reformation in 2016. His Thomas Cromwell: a Life appeared in 2018, and his Lower than the Angels: a history of sex and Christianity in 2024. He was knighted in the UK New Year’s Honours List of 2012.
Research Area:
History of Christianity
Research Interests:
History of Christianity; Reformation England
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarmaid_MacCulloch
https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/people/fellow/professor-diarmaid-macculloch
