Diarmaid MacCulloch

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He has written extensively on the sixteenth century and beyond it. His History of Christianity: the first three thousand years and the BBC TV series based on it first appeared in 2009; the book won the Cundill Prize, 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. He was knighted in the UK New Year’s Honours List of 2012.