Religion, politics and fear: how England was transformed by the Tudors. The English Reformation was a unique turning point in English history. Derek Wilson rete

'Masterly' - Eric Metaxas 'Mould-breaking' - John Guy 'A little gem of a book' - Suzannah Lipscomb From the Introduction: ‘There is no such thing as “the En

A sumptuously written people’s history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation Centuries on, what the Reformation w

The book retraces the history of the Church of England from the Henrician schism (1533–34) to the present day, and focuses on the complex relations between th

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.