James G. Clark

Frontispiece and title page of the 1534 edition of Tyndale’s New Testament. British Library/Bridgeman Images.

Good News: The Afterlife of Tyndale’s Bible

William Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament transformed the English language, but the text itself was almost erased.

The monastic seal of Chertsey Abbey during the reign of Henry VIII, April 1525. The National Archives.

The Lost Tudor Domesday Book

Once maligned as a record ‘of the dullest kind’, a 1535 audit of Church wealth – the Valor ecclesiasticus – offers a unique view of England’s religious, social and cultural life just months after the break with Rome.