Reformation

Patrick Williams reveals the courage of Henry VIII's Spanish wife.

Launching our new 'Treasures from the London Library' series in which, every fortnight, we reveal undiscovered documents from the collections of the London Library, Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros highlights several books with examples of both Catholic and Lutheran visual propaganda used during the Reformation. 

Richard Wilkinson elucidates the paradoxical career of one of the key figures of English Protestantism.

Simon Lemieux examines examples of German Protestant propaganda.

Lucy Wooding introduces a highly significant, but often much misunderstood, cultural force.

R. E. Foster puts the dissolution of the monasteries into historical context.

Kenneth Fincham and Nicholas Tyacke look at the ways ordinary people responded to  religious changes within their places of worship from the Reformation to the Restoration.

Michael Mullett introduces the life and work of a remarkable Protestant leader.

Marie Rowlands charts the changing fortunes of a religious minority.

Derek Wilson looks at the great religious reformer and asks why his life and work have seemed so ­significant to so many diverse people for almost 500 years.

Will Saunders asks whether one of the ‘villains’ of the English Reformation deserves his reputation.

Pauline Croft explains the origins of Bonfire Night by reconstructing events 400 years ago.

Paul Doolan visits a new museum in Geneva that presents the history of Reformed Christianity and Calvinism as a key and positive factor in European history.