The History of Parliament’s 10th annual lecture will take place on the evening of Wednesday, 5th November at Portcullis House, Westminster. Professor Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch will lecture on ‘Parliament and the Reformation of Edward VI’. Professor MacCulloch is professor of the history of the church at St Cross College, University of Oxford and has written extensively on Tudor England. His biography Thomas Cranmer: a Life (Yale UP, 1996) won the Whitbread Biography, Duff Cooper and James Tait Black Prizes. More recent publications from Penguin/Allen Lane have included Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (appearing in the USA as The Reformation: a History), and A History of Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years (in the USA, Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years), which won the 2010 Cundill Prize; his latest book is Silence: a Christian History. He has also presented several television and radio documentaries.

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