CURRICULUM VITAE: Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch
Born 31 October 1951, Kent, England; son of Rev. Nigel J.H. MacCulloch T.D., F.S.A. (Scot.) and Mrs. Jennie MacCulloch (née Chappell)
Schooling
Stowmarket Grammar School, 1962-9 Hillcroft Preparatory School, Stowmarket, Suffolk, 1956-62
University degrees
D.D. honoris causa, Virginia Theological Seminary, 2011 D.Litt. honoris causa, University of East Anglia, 2003 D.D., Oxford University, 2001 Postgraduate Diploma in Theology, Oxford University, 1987, following studies at Ripon College, Cuddesdon Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1977 (under direction of Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton) Diploma in Archive Administration (with Distinction), University of Liverpool, 1973 Undergraduate, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1969-72 (1st class Honours, Historical Tripos: M.A.)
Appointments held
Historical Project Director, Bishop Auckland Castle Christian Heritage Centre, 2011- date Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford, 1997-date Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford, 1995-date; Senior Tutor, 1996-99 Lecturer, Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, 1995-date; Curator of the Theology Faculty Building 1996-2005 Wingate Scholar, 1993-95 Research Fellow, Leverhulme Trust, 1990-91 Associate Scholar, University of East Anglia, 1984-87 Part-time Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, 1978-95 Tutor in History, Librarian and Archivist, Wesley College, Bristol, 1978-90 Approved Lecturer in the Faculty of History, Cambridge University, 1977-78 Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1976-8
Fellowships, prizes, awards and public recognition Knight Bachelor in the New Years Honours List, 2012 Elected to the Athenaeum Club, 2011 Awarded the 2010 Cundill History Prize (McGill University, Montreal) for Christianity: the first three thousand years (see below) BBC2 and BBC4: Diarmaid MacCulloch’s A History of Christianity (six-part documentary series, BBC4/BBC2, 2009/10): presenter and writer; series winner of Gold Award for Best TV/DVD documentary at the Christian Broadcasting Council Media Awards, 25 February 2010, and the Radio Times Readers’ Award, 25 May 2010 Awarded the 2009 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (see below) Longman-History Today Trustees Award 2009 Cantata inspired by Thomas Cranmer: a life composed by Robert Hugill: issued on CD, The Testament of Dr Cranmer (Divine Art dda25053, 2007) Awarded the 2003 Wolfson History Prize, the 2004 British Academy Prize and the 2005 Non-Fiction Award from the National Book Critics Circle of the USA for Reformation (see below) Elected Fellow of the British Academy, 2001; member of the Standing Committee of Section H9 (Early Modern History) 2002-09; Activities Committee 2009-10; Chairman, Events and Prizes Committee, 2010- Awarded the 1996 Whitbread Biography Prize, 1996 Duff Cooper Prize, 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Thomas Cranmer: a Life (see below), 1997 Awarded the 1986 Whitfield Prize of the R.H.S. for Suffolk and the Tudors (see below), 1987 Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 1982 Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1978
Named and special lecture invitations
Cundill Lecture, McGill University, Montreal, February 2012 Convocation Lecture, Virginia Theological Seminary, October 2011 Roland M. Bainton Lecture, Yale Divinity School, October 2011 Nicholas Orme Lecture, University of Exeter, March 2011 Keswick Hall Lecture, University of East Anglia, May 2010 Reid Lecturer, University of Cambridge, November 2009 Public lecture, ‘Sixteenth-century English Protestantism and the Continent’, Conference ‘Sister Reformations: Die Reformation in England und in Deutschland’, Berlin, September 2009 Hampton Court Henry VIII lectures: ‘Henry VIII and the Reformation’, Hampton Court, September 2009 Keynote lecture, Calvin quincentenary Congress, Geneva, May 2009: ‘Calvin: fifth Latin doctor of the Church?’ Martin Memorial Lectures, College of Emmanuel and St Chad, University of Saskatoon, Canada, May 2007 Emden Lecture, Saint Edmund Hall, Oxford, 9 May 2006 John Fines Memorial Lecture, Chichester Historical Association, 16 March 2006 Tyndale Lecture, Hertford College, Oxford, 27 October 2005 Public lecture: ‘Reformation’, Academiegebouw, University of Utrecht, 4 October 2005 Postgraduate Masterclass, Academiegebouw, University of Utrecht, 4 October 2005 Keynote speaker, seminar ‘Religious Tolerance: from the Reformation to Contemporary Culture’, University of Nijmegen, 3 October 2005 Helen Sutermeister Memorial Lecture, University of East Anglia, October 2004 Prothero Lecture of the Royal Historical Society, July 2004 Leader of Folger Institute Seminar, Washington DC: ‘The English Reformation’, May-June 2004 Erasmus Lecture, University of Toronto, 28 October 2003 Delivered Birkbeck Lectures, Cambridge University, Lent Term 1998
[Forthcoming] Invited as visiting lecturer, University of Rochester, spring 2013 Invited to give the Larkin-Stuart lectures at Trinity College, Toronto, winter 2013 Invited to give the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 2012: Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes’s Dog
Other activities and appointments
Vice-President, Ecclesiological Society, 2011 Member of Advisory Board for Princeton University Press in Europe, 2011 President, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, 2011 Honorary President, Wetherden History Group, 2010 Made Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Barbers, March 2009 Judge, Neale Prize, Institute of Historical Research, 2008-date Member of Editorial Board, XVII-XVIII: Revue de la Société d’Etudes Anglo- Americaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles, 2005-date Honorary Member, Clio (Cambridge University History Society), 2005 Member of Editorial Board, Peter Martyr Library, 2002-date Member of Wissenschaftlicher Beirat, Johannes à Lasco Bibliothek, Emden, 2000- 2007 Member of Council, Church of England Record Society, 1997-date; President of the Society, 2001-date Co-Editor, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 1995-date Member of Council, Suffolk Records Society, 1988-date
Publications include Books
2011
Historia de la Cristiandad (Debate/Random House Mondadori; ISBN 9788499920122): pp. 1293: Spanish translation of A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years Istoria Creștinismului: primii 3 000 de ani (hb Polirom, 2010; ISBN 9789734620166): pp. 1080: Romanian translation of A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years Christianity: the first three thousand years (Gildan Media, 2010; ISBN 9781596595545 / 159659554X), narrated by Walter Dixon: US audio edition of A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years. Duration time: 46 hours, 35 minutes
2010
Christianity: the first three thousand years (pb Viking Penguin, 2010; ISBN 9780143118695 / 0143118692): pp. xviii + 1162: US pb edition of A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years Riforma: la divisione della casa comune Europea (1490-1700) (Carocci, 2010; ISBN 9788843050611/ 8843050613): Italian edition of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700, tr. by C. Corradi) pp. 1022 Die Reformation 1490-1700 (DVA, 2010: ISBN 9783421059505/ 3421059500): pb German edition of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700, tr. by Helke Voss-Becher and Klaus Binder): pp. 1000. A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (pb Penguin, 2010; ISBN 9780670021260/ 0670021261): pp. xviii + 1162 Christianity: the first three thousand years (Viking Penguin, 2010; ISBN 9780141021898/ 0141021896): pp. xviii + 1162: hardback US edition of A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years
2009
A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (hb Allen Lane, 2009; ISBN 9780713998696 / 0713998695): pp. xviii + 1162 De geschiedenis van het Christendom (Spectrum, 2009; ISBN 9789049103378): Dutch edition of A History of Christianity, tr. by Huub Stegemann: pp. 1088 2008
Letters from Redgrave Hall: the Bacon family 1340-1744, edited by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Suffolk Records Society, vol. 50 (2007; ISBN 9781843834073 / 1843834073); pb edition Die Reformation 1490-1700 (hb: DVA, 2008; ISBN 9783423346535 / 3423346531) German edition of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700, tr. by Helke Voss-Becher and Klaus Binder: pp. 1000.
2007
Letters from Redgrave Hall: the Bacon family 1340-1744, edited by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Suffolk Records Society, vol. 50 (2007; ISBN 9781843832867 / 1843832860); hb edition
2006
[Christian History: an Introduction to the Western Tradition (pb: Peterborough: Epworth, 2006; ISBN 9780716206248 / 0716206242): pp. 314: revised edn with new bibliography of Groundwork of Christian History]
2005
Die Reformatie: het Europese huis gedeeld 1490-1700 (hb: Spectrum/Standaard Uitgeverij, 2005; ISBN 900222026X / 9789002220265): Dutch and Belgian editions of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700, tr. by Huub Stegeman: pp. 832 The Reformation: a history (revised pb: Penguin, 2005; ISBN 9780143035381 / 014303538X): pp. 832 [US edn of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700]
2004
The Reformation: a history (hb: Viking Penguin, 2004; ISBN 9780670032969 / 0670032964): pp. 792 [US edn of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700] A. Fletcher and D. MacCulloch, Tudor Rebellions (Longman, 5th revised edn., further rewritten by D. MacCulloch, 2004; new format, 2008; ISBN 9781405874328 / 1405874325): pp. 193
2003
Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 (Penguin/Allen Lane, hb 2003; pb Penguin 2004; ISBN 9780713993707 / 0713993707): pp. 832.
2002 The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (pb University of California Press, 2002; ISBN 9780520234024 / 0520234022): pp. 283 [US edn of Tudor Church Militant]
2001
The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (hb St. Martin’s Press, 2001; ISBN 9780312238308 / 0312238304): pp. 283 [US edn of Tudor Church Militant]
2000
The Later Reformation in England 1547-1603 (Macmillan, revised edn. 2000; ISBN 9780333921395 / 0333921399): pp. 192 Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (pb Penguin, 2000; ISBN 9780140285338 / 0140285334) pp. 283
1999
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (hb Penguin Allen Lane, 1999; ISBN 9780713993691 / 0713993693) pp. 283
1998
Thomas Cranmer: a Life (pb Yale University Press, 1998; ISBN 9780300074482 / 0300074484): pp. 692 Die zweite Phase der englischen Reformation (1547-1603) und die Geburt der anglikanischen Via Media (Aschendorff Münster, 1998; ISBN 9783402029794 / 3402029790): pp. 185: translation of The Later Reformation in England 1547-1603; tr. by Heribert Smolinsky
1997
A. Fletcher and D. MacCulloch, Tudor Rebellions (Longman, 4th revised edn; ISBN 0582289904 / 9780582289901), revised and partly rewritten by D. MacCulloch, 1997: pp. 170
1996
Thomas Cranmer: a Life (hb Yale University Press, 1996; ISBN 9780300066883 / 0300066880): pp. 692
1995
Diarmaid MacCulloch (ed.), The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety (pb Macmillan: Problems in Focus, 1995; ISBN 9780333578568 / 0333578562): pp. 313 Diarmaid MacCulloch (ed.), The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety (hb Macmillan: Problems in Focus, 1995; ISBN 9780333578575 / 0333578570): pp. 313
1994
J. Comby with D. MacCulloch, How to read Church History 2. From the Reformation to the present day 1500-1980 (SCM Press; revised edn. 1994; ISBN 9780334020363 / 0334020360): pp. 245
1990
The Later Reformation in England 1547-1603 (Macmillan, 1990; ISBN 9780333419281 / 0333419286): pp. 192
1989
J. Comby with D. MacCulloch, How to read Church History 2. From the Reformation to the present day 1500-1980 (SCM Press, 1989; ISBN 9780334020363 / 0334020360): pp. 245
1987
Groundwork of Christian History (Epworth, 1987; ISBN 9780716204343 / 0716204347): pp. 314: republished by Epworth with new bibliography as Christian History: an Introduction to the Western Tradition (2006)
1986
Suffolk and the Tudors: politics and religion in an English County 1500-1600 (Oxford University Press, 1986; ISBN 9780198229148 / 0198229143): pp. 454
1984
Manuscripts and other collections at Wesley College, Bristol: a catalogue by Diarmaid MacCulloch with an index by Mrs Maureen Fenn. Typescript: now available in digitized form as http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/onlinelists/GB1080%20MSS.pdf
1976
The Chorography of Suffolk, edited by D. MacCulloch, Suffolk Records Society vol. 19 (1976; ISSN 9780851150697 / 0851150691): pp. 170
[Forthcoming]: Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes’s Dog (Penguin and Viking, 2012) Further translations of Reformation in course of publication in French, Korean, Hungarian and Russian Further translations of A History of Christianity in course of publication in German, Italian, Korean, and Russian Selected research articles and contributions to books: early modern history
2011
‘Calvin: fifth Latin doctor of the Church?’, in I. Backus and P. Benedict (eds), Calvin and his influence, 1509-2009 (Oxford U.P., 2011; ISBN13: 9780199751846ISBN10: 0199751846), 33-45 ‘Foxes, Firebrands and Forgery: Robert Ware’s pollution of Reformation history’, Historical Journal 54 (2011; ISSN 0018-246X), 307-46
2009
D. MacCulloch, ‘Recent studies of angels in the Reformation’, Reformation 14 (2009), 179-86
2008
[‘Richard Hooker’s Reputation’, English Historical Review 117 (2002), 773-812, repr. in W.J.T. Kirby (ed.), A companion to Richard Hooker (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 563-612]
2007
‘Thomas Cranmer and Johannes Dantiscus: retractation and additions’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 58 (2007), 273-86 Anna Whitelock and Diarmaid MacCulloch, ‘Princess Mary’s household and the succession crisis, July 1553’, Historical Journal 50 (2007), 265-88
2006
‘Heinrich Bullinger and the English-speaking world’, in P. Opitz and E. Campi (eds), Heinrich Bullinger (1504?-1575): Leben, Denken, Wirkung (Zürcher Beiträge zur Reformationsgeschichte, vol. 24, 2006), 891-934 ‘The Latitude of the Church of England’, in K. Fincham and P. Lake (eds), Religious politics in post-Reformation England: essays in honour of Nicholas Tyacke (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), 41-59
2005
‘La Reforma Inglesa a judicio: percepciones biográficas del Arzobispo Thomas Cranmer’, in J.C. Davis and Isabel Burdiel (eds), El Otro, el Mismo: biografía y autobiografía en Europe (siglos XVII-XX) (Valèncìa: Universitat de Valèncìa, 2005), 89-114 ‘Putting the English Reformation on the map’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series 15 (2005), 75-96
2004
[‘The myth of the English Reformation’, Journal of British Studies 30 (1991), 1-19, repr. in A. Pettegree (ed.), The Reformation: critical concepts in historical studies (4 vols., London: Routledge, 2004)] ‘Mary and 16th-century Protestants’, in R.N. Swanson (ed.), The Church and Mary (Studies in Church History 39, 2004), 191-217
2002
‘Peter Martyr Vermigli and Thomas Cranmer’, in E. Campi et al. (eds), Peter Martyr Vermigli: Humanism, Republicanism, Reformation/Petrus Martyr: Humanismus, Republikanismus, Reformation (Geneva: Librairie Droz, Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 365, 2002), 173-202 ‘Richard Hooker’s Reputation’, English Historical Review 117 (2002), 773-812, repr. in W.J.T. Kirby (ed.), A companion to Richard Hooker (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 563-612 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries: Chitting, Henry; Cranmer, Thomas; Jermyn, Thomas; Nevinson, Stephen; Wingfield, Robert
2000
‘The importance of Jan Laski in the English Reformation’, in C. Strohm (ed.), Johannes à Lasco: Polnischer Baron, Humanist und europäischer Reformator (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, Spätmittelalter und Reformation, N.S., 14, 2000), 325-46
1998
‘Worcester: a cathedral city in the Reformation’ in P. Collinson and J. Craig (eds.), The Reformation in English Towns (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998), 94-112
1996
‘Archbishop Cranmer: Tolerance and Concord in a changing Church’, in O. Grell and R.W. Scribner (eds.), Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 1996), 119-215 ‘A Reformation in the balance: power struggles in the diocese of Norwich, 1533-53’, in C. Rawcliffe, R. Virgoe and R. Wilson (eds.), Counties and Communities: essays on East Anglian History (Norwich: Centre for East Anglian Studies, 1996), 97-114 1995
‘The impact of the English Reformation’, Historical Journal 38 (1995), 151-3 [review article] ‘A Bailiff’s list and Chronicle from Worcester’ by D. MacCulloch and P. Hughes, Antiquaries Journal 75 (1995), 235-53
1994
‘New spotlights on the English Reformation’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 45 (1994), 319-24 [review article] ‘Two Dons in Politics: Thomas Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner 1503-1533’, Historical Journal 37 (1994), 1-22
1993
Entry on Sir Thomas Jermyn (1573-1645) for Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons, ed. C.S. Nicholls (Oxford University Press, 1993)
1991
‘Pastoral provision in the parishes of Tudor Ipswich’ by D. MacCulloch and J.M. Blatchly, Sixteenth Century Journal 21 (1991), 457-74 ‘The myth of the English Reformation’, Journal of British Studies 30 (1991), 1-19, repr. in A. Pettegree (ed.), The Reformation: critical concepts in historical studies (4 vols., London: Routledge, 2004)
1990
‘The Impact of the Reformation on Suffolk parish life’, Suffolk Review New Series 15 (Autumn 1990)
1988
‘Bondmen under the Tudors’, in Law and Government under the Tudors, ed. C. Cross, D. Loades and J.J. Scarisbrick (Cambridge University Press, 1988), 91- 109
1984
[‘Kett’s Rebellion in Context’, Past and Present 84 (Aug. 1979), 36-59; ‘Kett’s Rebellion: a Rejoinder’, in debate with J. Cornwall, Past and Present 93 (Nov. 1981), 165-73; repr. in P. Slack (ed.), Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order (Cambridge University Press, 1984)] Camden Miscellany 28 (Camden Society, 4th series, 29, 1984), 181-300: ‘The ‘Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae’ of Robert Wingfield of Brantham’, ed. and translated by D. MacCulloch 1981
‘Catholic and Puritan in Elizabethan Suffolk: a county community polarises’, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 72 (1981), 232-89 ‘Kett’s Rebellion: a Rejoinder’, in debate with J. Cornwall, Past and Present 93 (Nov. 1981), 165-73; repr. in P. Slack (ed.), Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order (Cambridge University Press, 1984)
1979
‘Kett’s Rebellion in Context’, Past and Present 84 (Aug. 1979), 36-59; repr. in P. Slack (ed.), Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order (Cambridge University Press, 1984)
1977
A. Hassell Smith and D. MacCulloch, ‘The authorship of the Chorographies of East Anglia’, Norfolk Archaeology 36 (1977), 327-41
1976
‘Radulph Agas’, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 33 (1975/6), 275-84 Popularising articles and sections of books: history
2010
E. Solopova and D. MacCulloch, ‘Before the King James Bible’, in H. Moore and J. Reid (eds), Manifold Greatness: the making of the King James Bible (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2011; ISBN13: 9781851243495; ISBN10: 1851243496), 13-40
2010
Entries on Thomas Cranmer, Book of Common Prayer, Henry VIII and Mary Tudor and John Hooper in D. Patte (ed), Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 2010) ‘Sixteenth-century English Protestantism and the Continent’ in D. Wendebourg (ed.), Sister Reformations/Schwesterreformationen (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010; ISBN13: 9783161505966; ISBN10: 3161505964), 1-14
2009
‘The making of a new Church (1536-40)’, in S. Doran (ed.), Henry VIII: Man and Monarch (London: British Library, 2009), 185-87 ‘Against the Weber thesis’, in Modern Reformation 18/1 (June/July 2009), 20, 24 2008
‘Het Europese huis gedeeld: religieuze tolerantie tijdens de Reformatie’, in S. van Erp (ed.), Vrijheid in verdeeldheid: Geschiednis en actualiteit van religieuze tolerantie (Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers, 2008)
2007
‘Clash of civilisations? Islam and Christianity’, BBC History Magazine 8/5 (May 2007), 36-43 ‘St Mary-le-Bow: a church at the centre’ in M. Byrne and G.R. Bush (eds), St Mary- le-Bow: a history (Barnsley: pr. pr., 2007), 1-11.
2006
Foreword to L. Kreitzer, ‘Seditious Sectaryes’: the Baptist conventiclers of Oxford 1641-1691 (Paternoster: Studies in Baptist History and Thought 30/1, 30/2, 2006) Entries on Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Cromwell and John Hooper in F.J. Bremer and T. Webster (eds), Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: a comprehensive encyclopaedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2006) D. MacCulloch, M. Laven, and E. Duffy, ‘Recent Trends in the Study of Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Europe’, Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006), 697-731 ‘History against hatred?’, BBC History Magazine 7/4 (April 2006), 52
2005
‘Archives: Thomas Cranmer’, in M. Bostridge (ed.), Lives for sale: biographers’ tales (London: Continuum, 2004; paperback 2005), 62-67
2003
K. Konkola and D. MacCulloch, ‘People of the Book: success in the English Reformation’, History Today 53 (Oct. 2003), 23-32 ‘The Church of England 1533-1603’, in S. Platten (ed.), Anglicanism and the Western Christian Tradition (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2003), 18-41
2001
[Early modern author, J. Gardiner and N. Wenborn (eds.), History Today Companion to British History (London: Collins and Brown, 1995), revised as J. Gardiner (ed.), The Penguin Dictionary of British History (Penguin, 2001)] ‘The Reformation’, in H. Mayr-Harting and R. Harries (eds.), Christianity: Two Thousand Years (Oxford University Press, 2001), 132-61 ‘The Change of Religion’, in P. Collinson (ed.), Short Oxford History of the British Isles: the sixteenth century (Oxford University Press, 2001), 83-112 2000
Early modern author, J. Gardiner (ed.), The History Today Who’s Who in British History (London: Collins and Brown/CIMA, 2000) ‘Edward VI and Mary I: 1547-1558’ in A. Ward and H. Chadwick (ed.), Not Angels, but Anglicans (SCM/Canterbury Press, 2000), 135-42 [Introduction to The Book of Common Prayer 1662 Version (London: Everyman Library, 241, 1999), ix-xxxiv, repr. in P. Mullen (ed.), The Real Common Worship (Denton, Norfolk: Edgeways, 2000), 1-20]
1999
Introduction to The Book of Common Prayer 1662 Version (London: Everyman Library, 241, 1999; ISBN 978-1857152418), ix-xxxiv, repr. in P. Mullen (ed.), The Real Common Worship (Denton, Norfolk: Edgeways, 2000), 1-20
1997
Consultant on the Reformation in Britain for E.A. Livingstone (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press, 3rd revised edition, 1997)
1996
‘The English Lowlands, 1509-1603’, in J. Morrill (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain (Oxford University Press, 1996), 35f Entry on Archbishop Thomas Cranmer for Encyclopaedia of the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 1996) ‘Cranmer’s ambiguous legacy’, History Today, 46 (May 1996), 23-31, repr. in Faith and Worship 41 and 42 (November 1996 and May 1997), 2-7, 2-5
1995
Early modern author, J. Gardiner and N. Wenborn (eds.), History Today Companion to British History (London: Collins and Brown, 1995), revised as J. Gardiner (ed.), The Penguin Dictionary of British History (Penguin, 2001)
1993
‘The Reign of Edward VI: a mid-Tudor crisis?’, History Review 16 (September 1993), 1-7
1992
‘The Reformation in England’, in Andrew Pettegree (ed.), The Early Reformation in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1992), 166-87 Building a Godly Realm: the establishment of English Protestantism 1558-1603, Historical Association New Appreciations in History series 27 (1992) Consultant, Chronicle of Britain and Ireland (London: Chronicle Communications, 1992)
1991
‘The religion of Henry VIII’, in David Starkey (ed.), Henry VIII: a European Court in England (London: Collins and Brown, 1991) ‘The myth of the English Reformation’, History Today 41 (July 1991)
1990
Contribution on the Howard family in David Starkey (ed.), Rivals in Power (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990) Contributions to D.M. Loades (ed.), Chronicle of the Tudor Kings (London: Garamond, 1990)
1989
‘James Arminius and the Arminians’, History Today 39 (October 1989)
1984
‘The Local Communities’, in Elizabeth I. Most Politick Princess, History Today special issue, 1984
[Forthcoming]: ‘Changing perspectives on the Reformation: the last fifty years’, in The Church on its past (Studies in Church History, 2013)
Selected research articles: topography and archaeology: ‘A first stirring of Suffolk archaeology?’, in C. Harper-Bill, C. Rawcliffe and R. Wilson (eds.), East Anglia’s History: studies in honour of Norman Scarfe (Norwich: Centre for East Anglian Studies, 2002), 149-57. D. MacCulloch and J.M. Blatchly, ‘A House fit for a Queen: Wingfield House, Tacket Street, Ipswich and its heraldic room’, Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch. 38 (1993), 13-34 D. MacCulloch and J.M. Blatchly, ‘An early organ at Framlingham Parish Church, Suffolk’, Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch., 37 (1989), 18-30 J.M. Blatchly and D. MacCulloch, ‘Recent excavations at St. Stephen’s Church, Ipswich’, Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch. 36 (1986), 101-14 ‘Henry Chitting’s Suffolk Collections’, Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch. 34 (1978), 103-28 D. MacCulloch and J.M. Blatchly, ‘An Ipswich conundrum: the Withipoll memorials’, Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society 12 (1977), 240-47 Selected articles: theology and the Church ‘The crisis for gays in the Church’, Journal of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement 48 (Autumn 1989) ‘Was Methodism a mistake?’, Epworth Review 15/2 (May 1988), 15-18 ‘Why Eschatology?’, Octave 2 (1987) ‘Church Buildings: a pearl of great price’, Epworth Review 11 (1984), 53-58 Book Reviews including for Antiquaries Journal, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, Archives, Biography, Bulletin of the Monumental Brass Society, Catholic Historical Review, Church Times, Daily Telegraph, English Historical Review, Epworth Review, Gay Christian, Gay News, Guardian, Historical Journal, History, History and Archaeology Review, History of Education, History of Religions, History Today, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Theological Studies, Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical History, Literary Review of Canada, London Review of Books, Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiednis, New Blackfriars, New Statesman and Society, Observer, Reformation, Sixteenth Century Journal, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Tablet, Teaching History, Theology, Times, Times Higher Education Supplement, Times Literary Supplement, Zwingliana Peer referee for articles For Church History, English Historical Review, Historical Journal, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Theological Studies, Renaissance Quarterly Journalism: feature articles ‘Rome’s New Wave’, London Review of Books, 2 June 2011, 29-30 ‘The book of ages’, Country Life Royal Wedding Collectors’ Issue, 20 April 2011 ‘Unplanned product of a very English Reformation’, Times series for Holy Week, 18 April 2011 ‘The King James Bible’s language lessons’, Guardian, 19 February 2011: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/18/king-james-bible- language?intcmp=239 ‘How Good is it?’, London Review of Books, 3 February 2011, 20-22 ‘Flying Bishops prepare for takeoff. Thank God’, The Times, 9 November 2010 ‘Five minutes with the Pope’, Tablet, 31 July 2010 ‘Overstatements’, London Review of Books, 10 June 2010, 10 ‘Benedict rewrites history’, Guardian, 20 May 2010: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/18/king-james-bible-language ‘Evil just is’, London Review of Books 13 May 2010, 23-24 ‘Five most blasphemous books’, Wall Street Journal, 17 April 2010 ‘Celibacy, the Roman Catholic Church, a resurrection, and a lesson from history’, The Times, 2 April 2010 ‘Why we should be thankful for Rowan Williams and his Church of common sense’, The Observer, 20 December 2009 ‘Paraphernalia’, London Review of Books (19 November 2009), 24-25 ‘Pope Benedict opens up new front in battle for the soul of two Churches’, The Observer, 25 October 2009 ‘Something about Mary’, London Review of Books (18 October 2007), 15-16 ‘Religie zal Europa en Amerika uiteendrijven: Israel, Katrina en Rita als tekenen van het Einde der Tijden, NRC Handelsblad, 30 September 2005 ‘The end of days: a self-fulfilling prophecy’, The Guardian, 29 January 2005 ‘De VS en de dag des oordeels’, DSLetteren, 22 September 2005 ‘Down with Orthodoxy’: Diarmaid MacCulloch interviewed by Theo Hobson, Spectator, 18 December 2004 ‘Profile: Henry VIII: Royal Male’, The Observer, 26 January 1997 ‘Christian Love but no procreation’, The Independent, 7 August 1993 ‘The crisis for gays in the Church’, The Guardian, 23 April 1990 Broadcasting: Television BBC1: appearances on The One Show, November 2009, January 2011 What’s the point of forgiveness? 22 April 2011: interviewed by Bettany Hughes BBC2 and BBC4: Diarmaid MacCulloch’s A History of Christianity (six-part documentary series, BBC4/BBC2, 2009/10/11): presenter and writer. Produced as a DVD by the Open University in the UK and Ambrose Productions in the USA; winner of Gold Award for Best TV/DVD documentary at the Christian Broadcasting Council Media Awards, 25 February 2010; Radio Times Readers’ Award, 25 May 2010; runner-up, Sandford St Martin Religious Television Award, 25 May 2010. BBC 2: The English: How God made them (forthcoming: March 2012): presenter and writer Retrospective: ‘The papal visit’: a discussion with Huw Edwards, Lord Patten of Barnes, Archbishop Vincent Nicholls and Prof. Tina Beattie (19 September 2010) Timewatch: ‘Gunpowder Plot’ (2005): interviewed Co-Presenter: ‘If God spare my life’: Thomas More and William Tyndale (drama-documentary, 2003) Adviser, Andrew Graham-Dixon’s A History of British Art (1993) BBC 4: The Reformation (4 episodes, 2007): interviewed by Tristram Hunt BBC Knowledge Channel: What If? (2000): interviewed ITV: Credo (1980): interviewed ITV Channel 4): Consultant on and contributor to The Battle for the Bible (2007; winner of a Chicago International Film Festival Silver Hugo award, 2008, for special achievement as best concept) : Comment (1990 ITV Channel 5: The wickedest women in history: Bloody Mary (2002): interviewed Croatian Television (HRT): Educational Programming: ‘The Reformation’ (2005): interviewed Korea National TV: The Da Vinci Code analysed (2007) Lone Wolf Productions (USA): The Pilgrim Fathers (2005): interviewed Polish National Television: Jan Laski in England (2001): interviewed SATEL Documentaries (US Arts and Entertainments Channel): ‘Henry VIII’; ‘Elizabeth I’ (1996): interviewed
Broadcasting: Radio BBC Radio 3: Visions of Mary: Mary and the Protestant Reformers, 22 December 2010 Night Shift interview 22 September 2009 Civil War Evening, Dec. 2002: interviewed
BBC Radio 4: The Afternoon Shift Battling with the Past Great Lives with Francine Stock multiple appearances on In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg The Long View with Jonathan Freeland The People’s History of England with Melvyn Bragg The Root of all Evil: Christianity and money with Giles Fraser Something Understood with Mark Tully Start the Week with Andrew Marr multiple appearances, Sunday programme That’s History Through the Courts Today programme Word for Word BBC Radio Ulster: Sunday Sequence: frequently interviewed BBC Scotland: Sally on Sunday, interview 30 May 2010 National and local radio short talks, US and UK: frequent interviews Public appearances Literary Festivals: Bath (2010); Burnham (2010); Cheltenham (2010); Folkestone (2010); Hay on Wye (2010); Hitchin (2011); Oxford (2010); Woodstock (2009); Words on the Water, Keswick (2010) Frequent speaker at Historical Association meetings, schools and Sixth-Form Conferences (especially Enterprise Education; David Jones Educational Conferences; Premier Student Conferences; Sovereign Education). Lecture courses with the Departments of Continuing Education in Bristol University, Cambridge University and the Virginia Program in Oxford.
Doctoral theses examined C. Jones, ‘Sacramental piety in England 1590-1630’, Oxford D.Phil., 2011 R. Dawn, ‘Predestination and the Lord’s Supper in the polemical ecclesiology of Richard Field (1561-1616)’, Oxford D.Phil., 2011 A. Russell, ‘England and the General Councils, 1409-1563’, Oxford D.Phil., 2011 K. Hill, ‘Baptism, brotherhood and belief: the meaning and development of identity in central German Anabaptism 1525-1585’, Oxford D.Phil., 2010 Matthew Milner, ‘A sensible Reformation: the senses and liturgical life in Tudor England’, Warwick Ph.D., 2006 A. Francisco, ‘Martin Luther’s approach to Islam: a study in sixteenth century apologetics’, Oxford D.Phil., 2005 A. Bevan Zlatar, ‘The Polemical Protestant Dialogue in Elizabethan England’, University of Geneva Ph.D., 2004 J. Schofield: ‘The Lost Reformation: why Lutheranism failed in England during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI’: Newcastle Ph.D., 2003 P.M. Ackroyd, ‘The unwelcome bridle: Peter Martyr Vermigli, the doctrine of the Church, and the English Reformation’, Edinburgh Univ. Ph.D., 2002 G.B. Graybill, ‘The evolution of Philipp Melanchthon’s thought on free will’, Oxford Univ. D.Phil., 2002 Jeffrey W. Leininger, ‘The Reformation in English Reformation Drama’ Cambridge Univ. Ph.D., 2002 M.A. Overell, Open Univ. Ph.D. by published work, 2002 A.D. Hunt, ‘The Art of hearing: English preachers and their audiences, 1590-1640’, Cambridge Univ. Ph.D., 2001 M. Yarnell, ‘Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation’, Oxford Univ. D. Phil., 2000 E. Shagan: ‘Popular politics and the English Reformation c. 1525-1553’, Princeton Univ. Ph.D., 2000 B. Galloway, ‘The Reformation of religion in Freebridge Marshland Norfolk, with special reference to Tilney All Saints, c. 1500-1580’, Cambridge Univ. Ph.D., 1999 J. Yiannikkou, ‘Protestantism, Puritanism and Practical Divinity in England, c. 1570- c.1620’, Cambridge Univ. Ph.D., 1999 D. Crankshaw, ‘Surveys of the Ministry in the Elizabethan Church of England’, Cambridge Univ. Ph.D., 1999 M.D. Thompson, ‘A sure ground on which to stand: the relation of authority and interpretive method in Luther’s approach to Scripture’, Oxford Univ. D.Phil., 1997 J.F. Schulman: ‘Charles Wellbeloved: a study of a dissenting minister’, Oxford Univ. B.D., 1997 H.L. Parish, ‘Precedent, policy and practice: clerical marriage and the English Reformation’, Oxford Univ. D.Phil., 1997 W.B. Richardson, ‘The religious policy of the Cecils 1589-1598’, Oxford Univ. D.Phil., 1994 C.J. Litzenberger, ‘Responses of the laity to changes in official religious policy in Gloucestershire (1541-1580)’, Cambridge Univ. Ph.D., 1993 H. Horie, ‘The influence of Continental Divines on the making of the English Religious Settlement, ca. 1547-1590’, Cambridge Univ. Ph.D., 1991 M. Clark, ‘The Reformation in the Diocese of Carlisle and the Lake Counties to 1570’, C.N.A.A. Ph.D., 1990 E.J. Bourgeois II, ‘A Ruling Elite: the government of Cambridgeshire, circa 1524-88’, Cambridge Univ. Ph.D., 1988 R. Fritze, ‘Faith and Faction: Religious changes, national politics and the development of local factionalism in Hampshire 1485-1570’: Cambridge Univ. Ph.D., 1982 Doctoral theses supervised S. Parks, ‘Honour Thy Mother: The Authority of Church and Tradition in Johann Gerhard’ Oxford D.Phil., in progress K. Carveley, ‘The monastic/ascetic impulse in eighteenth-century English Protestant spirituality’, Oxford D.Phil., in progress T. Carpenter, ‘Oxford University in the reign of Mary I’, Oxford D.Phil., in progress C. Otton-Goulder, ‘The Reformation in Yorkshire Church Buildings’, Oxford D.Phil., in progress W. Razzi, ‘Robert Crowley’, Oxford D.Phil., in progress C. Ashdowne, ‘Maria Maddalena Pazzi: the making of a saint’, Oxford D.Phil., 2009 C. Bass, ‘Thomas Grantham and General Baptist theology’, Oxford D.Phil., 2008 A. Dalton, ‘Bishop John Hooper and his networks’, Oxford D.Phil., 2008 H. Cleugh, ‘Baptism and burial in the English Reformation’, Oxford D.Phil., 2007 E. Bagley, ‘Catholic controversy on English biblical translation 1580-1850’, Oxford D.Phil., 2007 P. Hornbeck, ‘The Theology of Later Lollardy’, Oxford D.Phil., 2007 A. Rustell, ‘Tudor religious conservatism: conformity and Catholicism in Norfolk 1530-1558’, Oxford D.Phil., 2005 K. Maas, ‘Robert Barnes as historical theologian’, Oxford D.Phil., 2005 J.F. Jackson, ‘The Reformatio Legum: society and government in mid-Tudor England’, Oxford D.Phil., 2003 S. Hampton, ‘Anglican Calvinists of the late seventeenth century’, Oxford D.Phil., 2003 W. Wizeman, ‘Recalled to life: the Theology of the Marian Church in England’, Oxford D.Phil., 2002 L. Wright, ‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Anglican Church’, Oxford D.Phil., 2002 A. Ryrie, ‘Popular Protestantism in the English Reformation, 1540-1547’, Oxford D.Phil., 2000 E. Shagan: ‘Popular politics and the English Reformation c. 1525-1553’, Princeton Univ. Ph.D., 2000 [co-supervision in England] C. D’Alton, ‘The Suppression of heresy in early Henrician England’, Melbourne Ph.D. thesis, 1999 [co-supervision in England] N. Voak, ‘Richard Hooker as philosopher of the mind’, Oxford D.Phil., 1998 M. Dorman, ‘Lancelot Andrewes and the development of reformed Catholicism in the Church of England’, Bristol Ph.D., 1996 A. Null, ‘Thomas Cranmer’s Doctrine of Repentance’, Cambridge Ph.D., 1994 M. Chatfield, ‘Balthasar Hubmaier and the clarity of scripture: a study in the development of Reformation hermeneutics’, Bristol Ph.D., 1993 M. Clark, ‘The Reformation in the Diocese of Carlisle and the Lake Counties to 1570’, Council for National Academic Awards Ph.D. [Trinity College, Bristol], 1990