Why the Bacon Papers matter: Celebrating a Tudor publishing triumph with Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Norfolk Record Society presents Diarmaid MacCulloch who will be discussing the latest research on the papers of the prominent Bacon family of Suffolk and what they tell us about the religious controversies of Tudor Britain.About the speaker
Diarmaid N.J. MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University, and a prize-winning author who 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, the worlds 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 also 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 Revolutionary Life was published in 2018, a long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn.