Diarmaid MacCulloch

Diarmaid MacCulloch is a Fellow of Saint Cross College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London; he co-edited the Journal of Ecclesiastical History for twenty years. He was ordained deacon in the Church of England in 1987 and knighted in the UK New Years' Honours List of 2012. His chosen research field is Tudor England beginning with the Reformation in East Anglia, extending to a biography of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and a study of the Reformation under Edward VI. He wrote on the broader history of the European Reformation and world Christianity generally. His A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (winner of the 2010 Hessell-Tiltman Prize and the 2010 Cundill History Prize, Montreal) resulted in the BBC series A History of Christianity (given the Radio Times Readers' Award, May 2010). Further television work includes How God made the English (2012), Henry VIII's Fixer: the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell (2013), and Sex and the Church (2015). His most recent book is Thomas Cromwell: A Life (2018).