Diarmaid MacCulloch

Arminius and the Arminians

Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the complicated route by which a modest Dutch academic with impeccable Calvinist credentials became a patron saint for anti-Calvinists both in the Netherlands and in England.

History's Food and Drink

A look into the Henry Ford’s European Conservation Awards, which pays tribute to the history of ordinary life.

Cranmer's Ambiguous Legacy

Diarmaid MacCulloch reflects on the 'after-life' of Henry VIII's archbishop, burnt at the stake as a Protestant martyr under Mary. 

The Myth of the English Reformation

The ambiguous nature of the Reformation settlement in England has often taxed historians. Diarmaid MacCulloch casts a critical eye over the evidence for a 16th-century half-way house between Catholic and Protestant.