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Diarmaid MacCulloch
Books
Forthcoming
Translations into Serbo-Croat, Dutch, Italian and Spanish of Lower than the Angels: a history of sex and Christianity
Further translations of Reformation and Thomas Cromwell in course of publication in French, Russian and Simplified Mandarin Chinese
Further translations of A History of Christianity in course of publication in Simplified Mandarin Chinese, German, Italian, Slovak and Russian
Lower than the Angels: a history of sex and Christianity (Penguin Random House USA; ISBN-13 pb
2026
Niedriger als die Engel: eine Sexualgeschichte des Christentums (C.H. Beck; ISBN-13 9783406842924 hb); pp. 754: German edition of Lower than the Angels
Die Reformatie: een geschiednis 1490-1700 (Uitgeverij Omnibook, ISBN 9789401921231 / 9789401921305 e-book/pb): Dutch edition of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700, tr. by Huub Stegeman: pp. 832
2025
Lower than the Angels: a history of sex and Christianity (Penguin; ISBN-13 9780141990958 pb); pp. 688
Lower than the Angels: a history of sex and Christianity (Penguin Random House USA; ISBN-13 9781984878670 hb; 9781984878687 ebook; 97982170159006 audiobook); pp. 688
2024
Lower than the Angels: a history of sex and Christianity (Penguin/Allen Lane; ISBN-13 9780241400937 hb; 9780241400951 ebook; 9781802066586 audiobook); pp. 688
2023
Das Christentum Entgangene Zukunftsmöglichkeiten und gegenwärtige Ralitäten/Christianity: Lost Futures and Present Realities (Dr Leopold Lucas-Preis: Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2023; ISBN-13: 978316162322-6 hb; ISBN 9783161623882 ebook); with Award Ceremony address by Prof. Dr. Michael Tilly: pp. 119
2020
A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (3 vols, Folio Society, hb, with new introduction by Neil MacGregor [No ISBN number]: pp. 1410
Diarmaid MacCulloch and Anthony Fletcher, Tudor Rebellions (7th edn London and New York: Routledge; ISBN-13: 9780367345532 hb; 9780367345525) pb; 9780429326516 e-book
2019
Thomas Cromwell: a life (pb edn London: Penguin; ISBN-13: 9780241952337)
Thomas Cromwell: a revolutionary life (pb edn New York: Viking; ISBN-13: 9780143132929)
Il Silenzio nella storia del Cristianesimo (Neri Pozza Editore, Vicenza; ISBN 978 88 545 1853 8): pp. 384: Italian translation of Silence: a Christian History by Norman Gobetti
2018
Thomas Cromwell: a life (hb edn London: Allen Lane; ISBN-13: 9781846144295; plus Kindle ASIN: B07B4QF6WX/9780241952336, Audio 9780525641483; https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Thomas-Cromwell-Audiobook/0141989459)
Thomas Cromwell: a revolutionary life (hb edn and ebook New York: Viking; ISBN-13: 9780525560296,)
All Things Made New: Writing on the Reformation (Christian Literature Crusade, Seoul; ISBN-13 978 89 341 1904 3): Korean edition: translation by Dong Soo Han
All Things Made New: the Reformation and its legacy (MMPB): Simplified Mandarin edition
2017
Silence: a Christian History (Christian Literature Crusade, Seoul; ISBN 978 89 341 1651 6 (93230)): pp. 448: Korean edition: translation by Dawk Mahn Bae
All Things Made New: the Reformation and its legacy (pb edn: New York, Oxford University Press; ISBN-13 9780190616823): pp. 450
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (pb: London, Penguin; ISBN-13 9780141985077): pp. 283
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation (pb edn: London, Penguin; ISBN-13 9780141983011): pp. 450
2016
Thomas Cranmer: a Life (pb Yale University Press, revised edn. 2016; ISBN 97803000744482 / 9780300226577): pp. 692
All Things Made New: the Reformation and its legacy (hb edn: New York, Oxford University Press; ISBN-13 978-0241254004; Audio CD: 978-1536696400): pp. 450
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation (hb edn: London, Allen Lane; ISBN 978-0241254004; Kindle 978-0241254000): pp. 450
2014
Silence: a Christian History (pb edn: Viking; ISBN 978-0143125815): pp. 338
Silence: a Christian History (pb edn: Allen Lane; ISBN 978- 0241952328/ 0241952320): pp. 338
2013
Monks, the Pope, and the origins of the Crusades: a selection from Christianity (pb and e-book: Penguin Tracks; ISBN 9781101630870)
God in America: Puritans, Evangelicals, and the birth of a Protestant Empire: a selection from Christianity (pb and e-book: Penguin Tracks; ISBN 9781101630860)
A History of Christianity Chs. 11-20 (Christian Literature Crusade, Seoul; ISBN 978 89 341 1291 4 (93230)): pp. 680: Korean translation by Dawk Mahn Bae
Silence: a Christian History (hb and Kindle edn: Viking; ISBN 978-0-670-02556-5): pp. 338
Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 (2 vols, Folio Society, hb, with new introduction by Christopher Brooke [No ISBN number]: pp. 860.
Silence: a Christian History (hb and Kindle edn: Allen Lane; ISBN 978-1846144264 / 1846144264; 978-0-14-196765-3): pp. 338
J. Blatchly and D. MacCulloch, Miracles in Lady Lane: the Ipswich Shrine at the Westgate (hb, privately printed; ISBN 978-0956458421): pp. 92
2011
The Reformation: a history (Christian Literature Crusade, Seoul; ISBN 978 89 341 1163 4(93230)): pp. 941: Korean translation by Eun Jae Lee and Sang Won Cho
A Reformáció Története (Európa; ISBN 978 963 07 9281 3): pp. 1255: Hungarian translation of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700, tr. by V. Benjámin)
Historia de la Cristiandad (Debate/Random House Mondadori; ISBN 9788499920122): pp. 1293: Spanish translation of A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years, tr. by Ricardo García Pérez
Istoria Creștinismului: primii 3 000 de ani (hb Polirom, 2010; ISBN 9789734620166): pp. 1080: Romanian translation of A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years, tr. by C. Dumitru and Mihai-Silviu Chirilă
Christianity: the first three thousand years (Gildan Media, 2010; ISBN 9781596595545 / 159659554X), narrated by Walter Dixon: US audio edition of A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years. Duration time: 46 hours, 35 minutes
2010
Christianity: the first three thousand years (pb and Kindle edn: Viking, 2010; ISBN 9780143118695 / 0143118692): pp. xviii + 1162: US pb edition of A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years
Riforma: la divisione della casa comune Europea (1490-1700) (Carocci, 2010; ISBN 9788843050611/ 8843050613): Italian edition of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700, tr. by C. Corradi) pp. 1022
Die Reformation 1490-1700 (DVA, 2010: ISBN 9783421059505/ 3421059500): pb German edition of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700, tr. by Helke Voss-Becher and Klaus Binder): pp. 1000.
A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (pb Penguin, 2010; ISBN 9780670021260/ 0670021261): pp. xviii + 1162
Christianity: the first three thousand years (Viking Penguin, 2010; ISBN 9780141021898/ 0141021896): pp. xviii + 1162: hardback US edition of A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years
2009
A History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (hb Allen Lane, 2009; ISBN 9780713998696 / 0713998695): pp. xviii + 1162
De geschiedenis van het Christendom (Spectrum, 2009; ISBN 9789049103378): Dutch edition of A History of Christianity, tr. by Huub Stegemann: pp. 1088
2008
Letters from Redgrave Hall: the Bacon family 1340-1744, edited by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Suffolk Records Society, vol. 50 (2007; ISBN 9781843834073 / 1843834073); pb edition
Die Reformation 1490-1700 (hb: DVA, 2008; ISBN 9783423346535 / 3423346531) German edition of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700, tr. by Helke Voss-Becher and Klaus Binder: pp. 1000.
2007
Letters from Redgrave Hall: the Bacon family 1340-1744, edited by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Suffolk Records Society, vol. 50 (2007; ISBN 9781843832867 / 1843832860); hb edition
2006
[Christian History: an Introduction to the Western Tradition (pb: Peterborough: Epworth, now SCM Press, 2006; ISBN 9780716206248 / 0716206242): pp. 314: revised edn with new bibliography of Groundwork of Christian History]
2005
Die Reformatie: het Europese huis gedeeld 1490-1700 (hb: Spectrum/Standaard Uitgeverij, 2005; ISBN 900222026X / 9789002220265): Dutch and Belgian editions of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700, tr. by Huub Stegeman: pp. 832
The Reformation: a history (revised pb: New York, Viking, 2005; ISBN 9780143035381 / 014303538X): pp. 832 [US edn of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700]
2004
The Reformation: a history (hb: Viking, 2004; ISBN 9780670032969 / 0670032964): pp. 792 [US edn of Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700]
Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 (pb London, Penguin 2004; ISBN 0713993707): pp. 832.
A. Fletcher and D. MacCulloch, Tudor Rebellions (London, Longman, 5th revised edn., further rewritten by D. MacCulloch, 2004; new format, 2008; ISBN 9781405874328 / 1405874325): pp. 193
2003
Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 (Allen Lane, hb 2003; ISBN 9780713993707): pp. 832.
2002
The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (pb University of California Press, 2002; ISBN 9780520234024 / 0520234022): pp. 283 [US edn of Tudor Church Militant]
2001
The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (hb St. Martin’s Press, 2001; ISBN 9780312238308 / 0312238304): pp. 283 [US edn of Tudor Church Militant]
2000
The Later Reformation in England 1547-1603 (Macmillan, revised edn. 2000; ISBN 9780333921395 / 0333921399): pp. 192
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (pb Penguin, 2000; ISBN 9780140285338 / 0140285334) pp. 283
1999
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (hb Penguin Allen Lane, 1999; ISBN 9780713993691 / 0713993693) pp. 283
1998
Thomas Cranmer: a Life (pb Yale University Press, 1998; ISBN 9780300074482 / 0300074484): pp. 692
Die zweite Phase der englischen Reformation (1547-1603) und die Geburt der anglikanischen Via Media (Aschendorff Münster, 1998; ISBN 9783402029794 / 3402029790): pp. 185: translation of The Later Reformation in England 1547-1603; tr. by Heribert Smolinsky
1997
A. Fletcher and D. MacCulloch, Tudor Rebellions (Longman, 4th revised edn; ISBN 0582289904 / 9780582289901), revised and partly rewritten by D. MacCulloch, 1997: pp. 170
1996
Thomas Cranmer: a Life (hb Yale University Press, 1996; ISBN 9780300066883 / 0300066880): pp. 692
1995
Diarmaid MacCulloch (ed.), The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety (pb Macmillan: Problems in Focus, 1995; ISBN 9780333578568 / 0333578562): pp. 313
Diarmaid MacCulloch (ed.), The Reign of Henry VIII: Politics, Policy and Piety (hb Macmillan: Problems in Focus, 1995; ISBN 9780333578575 / 0333578570): pp. 313
1994
J. Comby with D. MacCulloch, How to read Church History 2. From the Reformation to the present day 1500-1980 (SCM Press; revised edn. 1994; ISBN 9780334020363 / 0334020360): pp. 245
1990
The Later Reformation in England 1547-1603 (Macmillan, 1990; ISBN 9780333419281 / 0333419286): pp. 192
1989
J. Comby with D. MacCulloch, How to read Church History 2. From the Reformation to the present day 1500-1980 (SCM Press, 1989; ISBN 9780334020363 / 0334020360): pp. 245
1987
Groundwork of Christian History (Epworth, 1987; ISBN 9780716204343 / 0716204347): pp. 314: republished by Epworth with new bibliography as Christian History: an Introduction to the Western Tradition (2006)
1986
Suffolk and the Tudors: politics and religion in an English County 1500-1600 (Oxford University Press, 1986; ISBN 9780198229148 / 0198229143): pp. 454
1984
Manuscripts and other collections at Wesley College, Bristol: a catalogue by Diarmaid MacCulloch with an index by Mrs Maureen Fenn. Typescript: now available in digitized form as http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/onlinelists/GB1080%20MSS.pdf
1976
The Chorography of Suffolk, edited by D. MacCulloch, Suffolk Records Society vol. 19 (1976; ISSN 9780851150697 / 0851150691): pp. 170
Selected research articles and contributions to books: early modern history
Forthcoming
‘William Tyndale and Thomas Cromwell: recovering one nexus within the early English Reformation’, Reformation
2026
‘A Response’ to a Forum of reviews of Lower than the Angels: a history of sex and Christianity, Catholic Historical Review 111 (2026; ISSN 0008-8080 and e-ISSN 1534-0708), 000-00
2025
‘Matters overlooked: straightening out the story of the Reformation’, in B.M. Guyer and W.E. Engel (eds), Researching the English Reformation: essays in honor of W.B. Patterson (Brill, 2025; ISSN 2405-7576; ISBN 978-90-04-67783 pb 978-90-04-73835-5), 15-37
2024
‘Afterword’, in J. Griesel and E. Counsell (eds), Reformed identity and conformity in England, 1559-1714 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024; ISBN 978 1 5261 5797 2), 263-70
‘A French eye on Henry VIII’s Reformation’, Bodleian Library Record 35 (2022-24; ISSN 0067-9488, Print), 204-206
2023
‘The end of the Carthusians at the London Charterhouse’, in J. Luxford (ed.), The Capital’s Charterhouses and the Record of English Carthusianism (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Papers in Medieval Studies, 2023; ISBN 000), 225-39
2022
‘Roods, screens and weddings’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 63 (2022; ISSN 0022-0469 (print) 1469-7637 (web)), 368-81
2021
‘Iconophobia and iconoclasm’, in P. Horden (ed.), The Reredos of All Souls College Oxford (London: Paul Holberton, 2021; ISBN: 9781912168224), 182-95
2019
‘Closing Remarks II’, in J. Watts (ed.), Renaissance College: Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in Context, 1450-1600 (History of Universities Special Issue 22/1-2, 2019; ISBN 9780198848523), 317-21
‘The Great Transition: 1530-1600’, and ‘Conclusion’, in D. Cannadine (ed.), Westminster Abbey: A Church in History (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2019; ISBN 9781913107024), 135-77 and 363-81
2018
Thomas Cromwell’s Religion Revisited (Friends of Dr Williams’s Library, 71st Lecture, 2018 ISBN 9780852170885/ 0852170882), pp. 38
2016
T. Fitzgerald and D. MacCulloch, ‘Gregory Cromwell: Two Portrait Miniatures by Hans Holbein the Younger’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 57 (2016; ISSN 0022-0469 (print) 1469-7637 (web)), 587-601
‘The Church of England and international Protestantism’, in A. Milton (ed.), The History of Anglicanism I c. 1520-1662 (Oxford University Press, 2016; ISBN 9780199639731), 316-32
2015
‘Parliament and the Reformation of Edward VI’, Parliamentary History 34 (2015; ISSN 1750-0206), 383-400
‘The Wars of the Roses, the downfall of the De la Poles and the dissolution of Wingfield College’, in P. Bloore and E. Martin (eds), Wingfield College and its Patrons: piety and patronage in medieval Suffolk (Boydell Press, 2015; ISBN 9781843838326), 207-19
2014
J.-G. Deutsch, D. MacCulloch and T. Pound, St Cross College at Fifty (Oxford: St Cross College, 2014; ISBN13: hb 9780993009907; pb 9780993009914)
2013
‘Changing perspectives on the Reformation: the last fifty years’, in P. Clarke and C. Methuen (eds), The Church on its past (Studies in Church History, 2013; ISBN 978-0-95468-101-2), 282-302
2011
‘Calvin: fifth Latin doctor of the Church?’, in I. Backus and P. Benedict (eds), Calvin and his influence, 1509-2009 (Oxford U.P., 2011; ISBN13: 9780199751846 ISBN10: 0199751846), 33-45
‘Foxes, Firebrands and Forgery: Robert Ware’s pollution of Reformation history’, Historical Journal 54 (2011; ISSN 0018-246X), 307-46
2009
D. MacCulloch, ‘Recent studies of angels in the Reformation’, Reformation 14 (2009), 179-86
2008
[‘Richard Hooker’s Reputation’, English Historical Review 117 (2002), 773-812, repr. in W.J.T. Kirby (ed.), A companion to Richard Hooker (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 563-612]
2007
‘Thomas Cranmer and Johannes Dantiscus: retractation and additions’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 58 (2007; ISSN 0022-0469 (print) 1469-7637 (web)), 273-86
Anna Whitelock and Diarmaid MacCulloch, ‘Princess Mary’s household and the succession crisis, July 1553’, Historical Journal 50 (2007), 265-88
2006
‘Heinrich Bullinger and the English-speaking world’, in P. Opitz and E. Campi (eds), Heinrich Bullinger (1504?-1575): Leben, Denken, Wirkung (Zürcher Beiträge zur Reformationsgeschichte, vol. 24, 2006), 891-934
‘The Latitude of the Church of England’, in K. Fincham and P. Lake (eds), Religious politics in post-Reformation England: essays in honour of Nicholas Tyacke (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006), 41-59
2005
‘La Reforma Inglesa a judicio: percepciones biográficas del Arzobispo Thomas Cranmer’, in J.C. Davis and Isabel Burdiel (eds), El Otro, el Mismo: biografía y autobiografía en Europe (siglos XVII-XX) (Valèncìa: Universitat de Valèncìa, 2005), 89-114
‘Putting the English Reformation on the map’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series 15 (2005), 75-96
2004
[‘The myth of the English Reformation’, Journal of British Studies 30 (1991), 1-19, repr. in A. Pettegree (ed.), The Reformation: critical concepts in historical studies (4 vols., London: Routledge, 2004)]
‘Mary and 16th-century Protestants’, in R.N. Swanson (ed.), The Church and Mary (Studies in Church History 39, 2004), 191-217
2002
‘Peter Martyr Vermigli and Thomas Cranmer’, in E. Campi et al. (eds), Peter Martyr Vermigli: Humanism, Republicanism, Reformation/Petrus Martyr: Humanismus, Republikanismus, Reformation (Geneva: Librairie Droz, Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 365, 2002), 173-202
‘Richard Hooker’s Reputation’, English Historical Review 117 (2002), 773-812, repr. in W.J.T. Kirby (ed.), A companion to Richard Hooker (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 563-612
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries: Chitting, Henry; Cranmer, Thomas; Jermyn, Thomas; Nevinson, Stephen; Wingfield, Robert
2000
‘The importance of Jan Laski in the English Reformation’, in C. Strohm (ed.), Johannes à Lasco: Polnischer Baron, Humanist und europäischer Reformator (Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, Spätmittelalter und Reformation, new series, 14, 2000), 325-46
1998
‘Worcester: a cathedral city in the Reformation’ in P. Collinson and J. Craig (eds.), The Reformation in English Towns (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998), 94-112
1996
‘Archbishop Cranmer: Tolerance and Concord in a changing Church’, in O. Grell and R.W. Scribner (eds.), Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 1996), 119-215
‘A Reformation in the balance: power struggles in the diocese of Norwich, 1533-53’, in C. Rawcliffe, R. Virgoe and R. Wilson (eds.), Counties and Communities: essays on East Anglian History (Norwich: Centre for East Anglian Studies, 1996), 97-114
1995
‘The impact of the English Reformation’, Historical Journal 38 (1995), 151-3 [review article]
‘A Bailiff’s list and Chronicle from Worcester’ by D. MacCulloch and P. Hughes, Antiquaries Journal 75 (1995), 235-53
1994
‘New spotlights on the English Reformation’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 45 (1994; ISSN 0022-0469 (print) 1469-7637 (web)), 319-24 [review article]
‘Two Dons in Politics: Thomas Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner 1503-1533’, Historical Journal 37 (1994), 1-22
1993
Entry on Sir Thomas Jermyn (1573-1645) for Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons, ed. C.S. Nicholls (Oxford University Press, 1993)
1991
‘Pastoral provision in the parishes of Tudor Ipswich’ by D. MacCulloch and J.M. Blatchly, Sixteenth Century Journal 21 (1991), 457-74
‘The myth of the English Reformation’, Journal of British Studies 30 (1991), 1-19, repr. in A. Pettegree (ed.), The Reformation: critical concepts in historical studies (4 vols., London: Routledge, 2004)
1990
‘The Impact of the Reformation on Suffolk parish life’, Suffolk Review New Series 15 (Autumn 1990)
1988
‘Bondmen under the Tudors’, in Law and Government under the Tudors: Essays Presented to Sir Geoffrey Elton on His Retirement, ed. C. Cross, D. Loades and J.J. Scarisbrick (Cambridge University Press, 1988), 91-109
1984
[‘Kett’s Rebellion in Context’, Past and Present 84 (Aug. 1979), 36-59; ‘Kett’s Rebellion: a Rejoinder’, in debate with J. Cornwall, Past and Present 93 (Nov. 1981), 165-73; repr. in P. Slack (ed.), Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order (Cambridge University Press, 1984)]
D. MacCulloch (ed.), ‘The Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae of Robert Wingfield of Brantham’, Camden Miscellany 28 (C.S., 4th ser. 29, 1984), 181-300
1981
‘Catholic and Puritan in Elizabethan Suffolk: a county community polarises’, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 72 (1981), 232-89
‘Kett’s Rebellion: a Rejoinder’, in debate with J. Cornwall, Past and Present 93 (Nov. 1981), 165-73; repr. in P. Slack (ed.), Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order (Cambridge University Press, 1984)
1979
‘Kett’s Rebellion in Context’, Past and Present 84 (Aug. 1979), 36-59; repr. in P. Slack (ed.), Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order (Cambridge University Press, 1984)
1977
A. Hassell Smith and D. MacCulloch, ‘The authorship of the Chorographies of East Anglia’, Norfolk Archaeology 36 (1977), 327-41
1976
‘Radulph Agas: Virtue Unrewarded’, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 33 (1975/6), 275-84
Selected research articles: topography and archaeology:
‘Pevsner: a consumer report’, Eavesdropper Spring 2016
‘A first stirring of Suffolk archaeology?’, in C. Harper-Bill, C. Rawcliffe and R. Wilson (eds.), East Anglia’s History: studies in honour of Norman Scarfe (Norwich: Centre for East Anglian Studies, 2002), 149-57.
D. MacCulloch and J.M. Blatchly, ‘A House fit for a Queen: Wingfield House, Tacket Street, Ipswich and its heraldic room’, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 38 (1993), 13-34
D. MacCulloch and J.M. Blatchly, ‘An early organ at Framlingham Parish Church, Suffolk’, Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch., 37 (1989), 18-30
J.M. Blatchly and D. MacCulloch, ‘Recent excavations at St. Stephen’s Church, Ipswich’, Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch. 36 (1986), 101-14
‘Walton Priory: a correction’; ‘The Chorography of Suffolk: addendum and corrigendum’, Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch. 34 (1980), 283-4
‘Henry Chitting’s Suffolk Collections’, Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch. 34 (1978), 103-28
D. MacCulloch and J.M. Blatchly, ‘An Ipswich conundrum: the Withipoll memorials’, Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society 12 (1977), 240-47
‘Royal arms in Suffolk Churches’, Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch. 32 (19728), 279
‘Royal arms in Suffolk Churches’, Proc. Suff. Inst. Arch. 32 (1971), 193-97
Popularising articles and sections of books: history
2026
‘Foreword’, in H. Spillane, Selling the Word of God: the early commercial history of the English Bible (Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing, 2026; ISBN 978 1 85124662 5), vii-xii
‘Preaching to the choir from a pub bench’, Norfolk Churches Trust (), 000-00; ISBN
‘When did the Reformation end?’ Head to Head with Alexandra Walsham, Alec Ryrie and Bridget Heal, History Today 76/2 (Feb. 2026), 8-10; ISSN 0018-2753.
2024
‘Why sex was a sin’, BBC History Magazine 25 Supplement (Christmas 2024), 32-37; ISSN 1469-8552
‘From hero to zero: why Henry VIII turned against his right-hand man’, BBC History Magazine 25/12 (December 2024), 29-33; ISSN 1469-8552
2022
‘Introduction’, in C. Day, D. Gosling, N. Johnston and E. Roger, A History of Treason (London: John Blake Publishing, 2022; ISBN Hardback: 978-1-78946-630-0 Ebook: 978-1-78946-628-7 Audio: 978-1-78946-627-0), xi-xiv
‘A Government Inspector in Henry VIII’s Suffolk’, in E. Burke, D. Franklin, John and Mary James (eds), A New Suffolk Garland (Woodbridge: the Boydell Press, 2022; ISBN 978-1-78327), 170-72
2021
‘Jenny Wormald: an appreciation’, in J. Wormald, ed. M. Kerr-Peterson, James VI and I: collected essays (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2021, ISBN 978-1-91090025-3), ix-xiv
Programme note on Thomas Cromwell for the RSC production of Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light
2019
‘How important is the study of the powerful, epoch-defining individual?’ Head to Head with Jane Ridley, Sean Lang and Lucasta Miller, History Today 69/9 (September 2019); ISSN 0018-2753.
‘The Classic Book: Tony Judt, Postwar’, BBC History Magazine (August 2019), 7
2018
Foreword to D. Dymond, The Business of the Suffolk Parish 1558-1625 (Stowmarket: Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, 2018, ISBN 978-0-9521390-7-2), ix-x
‘James Carley: an appreciation’, in J. Willoughby and J. Catto (eds), Books and Bookmen in early modern Britain: essays presented to James P. Carley (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2018; ISBN 978-0-888444-830-9), xxiii-xxv
Preface to G.R. Elton, England under the Tudors (new edn, London: Routledge, 2018), 000.
2017
Foreword to M. Poulter, V. Potter and V. Harrup, The Making of a Borough: Orford and its Charter of Elizabeth I (Orford Museum, 2017, ISBN 978-0-9554738-1-4), 1
Interview with Darius Bruncz on the Reformation, The Window (Anglican-Lutheran Society Newsletter), May 2017; also published as http://luter2017.pl/reformacja-powrot-roznorodnej-normalnosci-rozmowa-ks-prof-diarmaidem-maccullochem-uniwersytetu-oksfordzie/
‘A contribution on the Reformation’, Trusting God in New Ways (EKD Magazine for the Anniversary of the Reformation, Berlin, 2017), 16-17
2016
D. MacCulloch and Denis Crouzet, 'Religious Schisms past and present: a dialogue', Lacanian Review 1 (Spring 2016; ISSN 2101-0307 ISBN 977-2-101030-13-2), pp. 29-38
‘The Reformation was in no way similar to Brexit’, The Conversation, 25 May 2016, and follow-up reply to Augur Pearce
2015
‘Reassessing Christian History’, in K. Almqvist and A. Linklater (eds), Religion: perspectives from the Engelsberg Seminar 2014 (2015; ISBN 978-91-89672-73-4), 63-70 [reissued without ISBN number as K. Almqvist (ed.), Religion in the past, the present day and the future (2020)]
Introduction to J. Dunn (ed.), Fundamentalisms: threats and ideologies in the modern world (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015 ISBN-10: hb 1780769504; ISBN-13: 978-1780769509), 1-5
2014
Introduction to The Bay Psalm Book: imprinted 1640 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 2014; ISBN13: 9781851244140), v-xvii
2013
Foreword to C. Bass, Thomas Grantham (1633-1692) and General Baptist Theology (Paternoster: Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies 10, 2013; ISBN 978-10907600-11-1)
‘Thomas Cromwell: a thug in a doublet?’, BBC History Magazine 14/3 (March 2013), 29-33; ISSN 1469-8552
2010
E. Solopova and D. MacCulloch, ‘Before the King James Bible’, in H. Moore and J. Reid (eds), Manifold Greatness: the making of the King James Bible (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2011; ISBN13: 9781851243495; ISBN10: 1851243496), 13-40
2010
Entries on Thomas Cranmer, Book of Common Prayer, Henry VIII and Mary Tudor and John Hooper in D. Patte (ed), Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 2010; ISBN-10: 0521527856; ISBN-13: 978-0521527859)
‘Sixteenth-century English Protestantism and the Continent’ in D. Wendebourg (ed.), Sister Reformations/Schwesterreformationen (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010; ISBN13: 9783161505966; ISBN10: 3161505964), 1-14
2009
‘The making of a new Church (1536-40)’, in S. Doran (ed.), Henry VIII: Man and Monarch (London: British Library, 2009), 185-87
‘Against the Weber thesis’, in Modern Reformation 18/1 (June/July 2009), 20, 24, reprinted in The Reformation, Then and Now: 25 Years of Modern Reformation Articles Celebrating 500 Years of the Reformation (forthcoming)
2008
‘Het Europese huis gedeeld: religieuze tolerantie tijdens de Reformatie’, in S. van Erp (ed.), Vrijheid in verdeeldheid: Geschiednis en actualiteit van religieuze tolerantie (Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers, 2008), 25-44
2007
‘Clash of civilisations? Islam and Christianity’, BBC History Magazine 8/5 (May 2007), 36-43
‘St Mary-le-Bow: a church at the centre’ in M. Byrne and G.R. Bush (eds), St Mary-le-Bow: a history (Barnsley: pr. pr., 2007), 1-11.
2006
Foreword to L. Kreitzer, ‘Seditious Sectaryes’: the Baptist conventiclers of Oxford 1641-1691 (Paternoster: Studies in Baptist History and Thought 30/1, 30/2, 2006)
Entries on Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Cromwell and John Hooper in F.J. Bremer and T. Webster (eds), Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: a comprehensive encyclopaedia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2006)
D. MacCulloch, M. Laven, and E. Duffy, ‘Recent Trends in the Study of Christianity in Sixteenth-Century Europe’, Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006), 697-731
‘History against hatred?’, BBC History Magazine 7/4 (April 2006), 52
2005
‘Archives: Thomas Cranmer’, in M. Bostridge (ed.), Lives for sale: biographers’ tales (London: Continuum, 2004; paperback 2005), 62-67
2003
K. Konkola and D. MacCulloch, ‘People of the Book: success in the English Reformation’, History Today 53 (Oct. 2003), 23-32; ; ISSN 0018-2753
‘The Church of England 1533-1603’, in S. Platten (ed.), Anglicanism and the Western Christian Tradition (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2003), 18-41
2001
[Early modern author, J. Gardiner and N. Wenborn (eds.), History Today Companion to British History (London: Collins and Brown, 1995), revised as J. Gardiner (ed.), The Penguin Dictionary of British History (Penguin, 2001)]
D. MacCulloch, “Can the English think for themselves? The roots of English Protestantism”, Harvard Divinity Bulletin 30 (2001), 17-20
‘The Reformation’, in H. Mayr-Harting and R. Harries (eds.), Christianity: Two Thousand Years (Oxford University Press, 2001), 132-61
‘The Change of Religion’, in P. Collinson (ed.), Short Oxford History of the British Isles: the sixteenth century (Oxford University Press, 2001; ISBN 0-19-820767-0/0-19-820766-2), 83-112
2000
Early modern author, J. Gardiner (ed.), The History Today Who’s Who in British History (London: Collins and Brown/CIMA, 2000)
‘Edward VI and Mary I: 1547-1558’ in A. Ward and H. Chadwick (ed.), Not Angels, but Anglicans (SCM/Canterbury Press, 2000), 135-42
[Introduction to The Book of Common Prayer 1662 Version (London: Everyman Library, 241, 1999), ix-xxxiv, repr. in P. Mullen (ed.), The Real Common Worship (Denton, Norfolk: Edgeways, 2000), 1-20]
1999
Introduction to The Book of Common Prayer 1662 Version (London: Everyman Library, 241, 1999; ISBN 978-1857152418), ix-xxxiv, repr. in P. Mullen (ed.), The Real Common Worship (Denton, Norfolk: Edgeways, 2000), 1-20
1997
Consultant on the Reformation in Britain for E.A. Livingstone (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press, 3rd revised edition, 1997)
1996
‘The consolidation of England, 1485-1603’, in J. Morrill (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain (Oxford University Press, 1996), 35-52
Entry on Archbishop Thomas Cranmer for Encyclopaedia of the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 1996)
‘Cranmer’s ambiguous legacy’, History Today, 46 (May 1996), 23-31, repr. in Faith and Worship 41 and 42 (November 1996 and May 1997), 2-7, 2-5; ; ISSN 0018-2753
1995
Early modern author, J. Gardiner and N. Wenborn (eds.), History Today Companion to British History (London: Collins and Brown, 1995), revised as J. Gardiner (ed.), The Penguin Dictionary of British History (Penguin, 2001)
1993
‘The Reign of Edward VI: a mid-Tudor crisis?’, History Review 16 (September 1993),
1-7
1992
‘The Reformation in England’, in Andrew Pettegree (ed.), The Early Reformation in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1992), 166-87
Building a Godly Realm: the establishment of English Protestantism 1558-1603, Historical Association New Appreciations in History series 27 (1992)
Consultant, Chronicle of Britain and Ireland (London: Chronicle Communications, 1992)
1991
‘The religion of Henry VIII’, in David Starkey (ed.), Henry VIII: a European Court in England (London: Collins and Brown, 1991)
‘The myth of the English Reformation’, History Today 41 (July 1991); ; ISSN 0018-2753
1990
Contribution on the Howard family in David Starkey (ed.), Rivals in Power (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990)
Contributions to D.M. Loades (ed.), Chronicle of the Tudor Kings (London: Garamond, 1990)
1989
‘James Arminius and the Arminians’, History Today 39 (October 1989); ; ISSN 0018-2753
1984
‘The Local Communities’, in Elizabeth I. Most Politick Princess, History Today special issue, 1984; ; ISSN 0018-2753
Selected articles: theology and the Church
Review in Modern Church, 16 November 2020, of Living in Love and Faith (2020): https://modernchurch.org.uk/prof-diarmaid-macculloch-living-in-love-and-faith?fbclid=IwAR38Y_Ntg4YbKIxsUPopdTFMEs8pD-wEpUDqPSHFJ33bqrwBH-JlSXjNzY0
‘And Finally: Love Your Neighbour’, Expository Times 126 (2015) 520-1; ISSN: 0014-5246; Online ISSN: 1745-5308
‘The nature and future of liberal theology’, Modern Believing 55 (2014) 346-48; ISSN 1353-1425, Online ISSN 2053-633X
‘The crisis for gays in the Church’, Journal of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement 48 (Autumn 1989)
‘Was Methodism a mistake?’, Epworth Review 15/2 (May 1988), 15-18
‘Why Eschatology?’, Octave 2 (1987)
‘Church Buildings: a pearl of great price’, Epworth Review 11 (1984), 53-58
Book Reviews
including for Antiquaries Journal, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, Archives, BBC History Magazine, Biography, Bodleian Library Record, Bulletin of the Monumental Brass Society, Catholic Historical Review, Church Times, Common Knowledge, Daily Telegraph, Ecclesiology Today, English Historical Review, Epworth Review, Gay Christian, Gay News, Guardian, Historical Journal, History, History and Archaeology Review, History of Education, History of Religions, History Today, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Theological Studies, Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical History, Literary Review of Canada, London Review of Books, Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiednis, New Blackfriars, New Statesman and Society, New York Review of Books, Observer, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, Reformation, Sixteenth Century Journal, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Tablet, Teaching History, Theology, Times, Times Higher Education Supplement, Times Literary Supplement, Zwingliana
Journalism: feature articles
‘Fighting Monks’, London Review of Books (ISSN 02609592), 21 May 2026
‘The pope vs Potus: war of words between Pope Leo XIV and Trump has a clear victor’, Observer 15 April 2026; https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/the-pope-vs-potus-war-of-words-between-pope-leo-xiv-and-trump-has-a-clear-victor
‘Notebook’, Church Times 19 September 2025
‘With Fresh Eyes’, London Review of Books (ISSN 02609592), 5 June 2025
‘Magnificent Progress’, London Review of Books (ISSN 02609592), 5 December 2024
‘What Jesus really thought of traditional “Family Values”’, Daily Telegraph (ISSN 0307-1235), 8 September 2024
‘Our Way of Proceeding’, London Review of Books (ISSN 02609592), 22 February 2024
‘Inside the mind of Thomas Cromwell: my cheerful rivalry with Hilary Mantel’, Daily Telegraph (ISSN 0307-1235), 23 September 2022
‘Silly Little War’, London Review of Books (ISSN 02609592), 9 June 2022
‘A Monk’s-Eye View’, London Review of Books (ISSN 02609592), 10 March 2022, 9-12
‘The vitality of Orthodoxy’, New York Review of Books (ISSN 00287504), 2 July 2020, 53-54
‘Who kicked them out?’, London Review of Books (ISSN 02609592), 1 August 2019, 23-24
‘Exploring churches with Diarmaid MacCulloch: “I love a locked room”’, Financial Times (ISSN 0307-1766) 26 July 2019 https://www.ft.com/content/e7c7dda2-ada5-11e9-8030-530adfa879c2
‘Paths from the Past: The architects of the Reformation would have been saddened by the isolationism of Brexit’, Guardian (ISSN 0261-3077), 30 March 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/30/paths-past-historians-make-sense-brexit-world-today
‘The Last Days of Thomas Cromwell’, Times Literary Supplement (ISSN 0307-661X), 28 September 2018, 17-19
‘Nobody’s perfect’, London Review of Books (ISSN 0260-9592), 27 September 2018, 19-20
‘How Thomas Cromwell’s love of Holbein destroyed him in the end’, Sunday Telegraph supplement (ISSN: 99761874) 16 September 2018
‘Belonging, Believing’, Times Literary Supplement (ISSN 0307-661X), 5 September 2018
‘The Real Meaning of Christmas’, Radio Times (ISSN 0033-8060), 9-15 December 2017, 9
‘A Bonanza for Lawyers’, London Review of Books (ISSN 0260-9592), 21 September 2017, 23-24
‘The World Took Sides’, London Review of Books (ISSN 0260-9592), 11 August 2016, 25-27
‘It’s Remain not Leave that captures the independent spirit of the Reformation’, The Conversation 27 May 2016: https://theconversation.com/its-remain-not-leave-that-captures-the-independent-spirit-of-the-reformation-59832
‘Tidy-Mindedness’, London Review of Books (ISSN 0260-9592), 24 September 2015, 17-18
‘How to be a Knight’, London Review of Books (ISSN 0260-9592), 21 May 2015, 12-30
‘Young Man’s Nostalgia’, London Review of Books (ISSN 0260-9592), 31 July 2014, 19-20
‘Faking the Canon’, London Review of Books (ISSN 0260-9592), 6 February 2014, 29-30
‘Does anyone know of any impediment?’, Times (ISSN 0140-0460), 14 September 2013
‘Horrible History’, Radio Times (ISSN 0033-8060), 18-24 May 2013, pp. 27-28
‘One enormous room’, London Review of Books (ISSN 0260-9592), 9 May 2013
‘Who is the antichrist? Not Obama. Not even Satan, exactly’, Guardian (ISSN 0261-3077), 5 April 2013: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2013/apr/05/who-is-the-antichrist-obama-satan
‘Heathrow blight reminds us that silence is sacred’, London Evening Standard (ISSN 2041-4404), 3 April 2013
‘Is silence a virtue?’, Big Issue, 25-31 March 2013
‘After the fire – a still small voice’, The Independent (ISSN 0951-9467), 30 March 2013
‘Stop this nightmare for the dreaming Spires’, Times (ISSN 0140-0460), 26 March 2013
‘If the walls are falling, build a new Vatican’, Times (ISSN 0140-0460), 2 March 2013
‘A brilliant theologian but a dreadful leader’, Times (ISSN 0140-0460), 12 February 2013
‘The Church and Monarchy must stop living in 1701’, Times, 8 January 2013
‘Not long a Bishop? Perfectly qualified, then’, Times 9 November 2012
‘Women bishops: Jesus was happy with female apostles. What is the CofE’'s problem?’ Observer (ISSN 0029-7712) 7 July 2012
‘Ignore the scared old men of Bishop World’, Times, 12 June 2012
‘Mumpsimus, Sumpsimus’, London Review of Books (ISSN 0260-9592), 24 May 2012, 13-15
‘Compulsory celibacy is wrong and damaging for all clergy – straight or gay’, Guardian, 20 January 2012
‘The Anglican Church can start afresh’, Guardian, 25 March 2012
‘Rome’s New Wave’, London Review of Books, 2 June 2011, 29-30
‘The book of ages’, Country Life Royal Wedding Collectors’ Issue, 20 April 2011
‘Unplanned product of a very English Reformation’, Times series for Holy Week, 18 April 2011
‘The King James Bible’s language lessons’, Guardian, 19 February 2011: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/18/king-james-bible-language?intcmp=239
‘How Good is it?’, London Review of Books, 3 February 2011, 20-22
‘Flying Bishops prepare for takeoff. Thank God’, The Times, 9 November 2010
‘Five minutes with the Pope’, Tablet, 31 July 2010
‘Overstatements’, London Review of Books, 10 June 2010, 10
‘Benedict rewrites history’, Guardian (ISSN 0261-3077), 20 May 2010: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/18/king-james-bible-language
‘Evil just is’, London Review of Books 13 May 2010, 23-24
‘Five most blasphemous books’, Wall Street Journal, 17 April 2010
‘Celibacy, the Roman Catholic Church, a resurrection, and a lesson from history’, The Times, 2 April 2010
‘Bishops act the bully in Parliament’, Guardian, 20 February 2010
‘Why we should be thankful for Rowan Williams and his Church of common sense’, The Observer, 20 December 2009
‘Paraphernalia’, London Review of Books (19 November 2009), 24-25
‘Pope Benedict opens up new front in battle for the soul of two Churches’, The Observer, 25 October 2009
‘Something about Mary’, London Review of Books (18 October 2007), 15-16
‘Religie zal Europa en Amerika uiteendrijven: Israel, Katrina en Rita als tekenen van het Einde der Tijden, NRC Handelsblad, 30 September 2005
‘The end of days: a self-fulfilling prophecy’, The Guardian, 29 January 2005
‘De VS en de dag des oordeels’, DSLetteren, 22 September 2005
‘Down with Orthodoxy’: Diarmaid MacCulloch interviewed by Theo Hobson, Spectator, 18 December 2004
‘Profile: Henry VIII: Royal Male’, The Observer, 26 January 1997
‘Christian Love but no procreation’, The Independent, 7 August 1993
‘The crisis for gays in the Church’, The Guardian, 23 April 1990
Broadcasting: Television
Team member for Churchill College, Cambridge, BBC Christmas University Challenge, 2024
BBC1: appearances on The One Show, November 2009, January 2011
What’s the point of forgiveness? 22 April 2011: interviewed by Bettany Hughes
BBC2 and BBC4:
Diarmaid MacCulloch’s A History of Christianity (six-part documentary series, BBC4/BBC2, 2009/10/11): presenter and writer. Produced as a DVD by the Open University in the UK and Ambrose Productions in the USA; winner of Gold Award for Best TV/DVD documentary at the Christian Broadcasting Council Media Awards, 25 February 2010; Radio Times Readers’ Award, 25 May 2010; runner-up, Sandford St Martin Religious Television Award, 25 May 2010. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ntrqh/episodes/guide
BBC 2:
Sex and the Church (three-part documentary, April 2015): presenter and writer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qsll9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_Church
or https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6v9yvn
Henry VIII’s enforcer: the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell (May 2013): presenter and writer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01t03ky
How God made the English (three-part documentary, March 2012): presenter and writer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hbkvt
Retrospective: ‘The papal visit’: a discussion with Huw Edwards, Lord Patten of Barnes, Archbishop Vincent Nicholls and Prof. Tina Beattie (19 September 2010)
Timewatch: ‘Gunpowder Plot’ (2005): interviewed
‘If God spare my life’: Thomas More and William Tyndale (drama-documentary, 2003): co-presenter
Adviser, Andrew Graham-Dixon’s A History of British Art (1993)
BBC 4: The Reformation (4 episodes, 2007): interviewed by Tristram Hunt
BBC Knowledge Channel: What If? (2000): interviewed
BBC Green Room, Woman’s Hour films: contributor to We need to talk about female masturbation (2016)
BBC Parliamentary Channel: Booktalk, Thomas Cromwell, 2018: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bvxl31
BYUTV: Fires of Faith (2011): interviewed
ITV: Credo (1980): interviewed
ITV Channel 4): Consultant on and contributor to The Battle for the Bible (2007; winner of a Chicago International Film Festival Silver Hugo award, 2008, for special achievement as best concept) :
Comment (1990)
ITV Channel 5: The wickedest women in history: Bloody Mary (2002): interviewed
Croatian Television (HRT): Educational Programming: ‘The Reformation’ (2005): interviewed
Korea National TV: The Da Vinci Code analysed (2007)
Lone Wolf Productions (USA): The Pilgrim Fathers (2005): interviewed
Polish National Television: Jan Laski in England (2001): interviewed
SATEL Documentaries (US Arts and Entertainments Channel): ‘Henry VIII’; ‘Elizabeth I’ (1996): interviewed
TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network): Inexplicable: 2. Heroines and Heroes of the Faith (Jan. 2021): interviewed. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2619367438331398
Team Captain, Churchill College Cambridge, ITV University Challenge, 1975
Broadcasting: Radio [includes:]
BBC Radio 3:
Talking about Silence, 5 talks, April 2022: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001645f
Interval conversation on the Reformation with Martin Handley, BBC Proms 4 August 2021: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8fn5v
Churchcrawls in Solitude, 5 talks, April 2021: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tw3w/episodes/player
Nightwaves and Free Thinking: several interviews
Belief: Conversation with Dame Joan Bakewell, 2 January 2014: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03m06h7
The Devastation of British Art, Sept. 2013: writer and presenter: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03d7pl9
The Last Heretic, 25 August 2012 (in conversation with Andrew Brown)
The Last Visions of Mary: Mary and the Protestant Reformers, 22 December 2010
Smashing the Idols: John Calvin, 30 September 2009 (in conversation with Andrew Brown)
Civil War Evening, Dec. 2002: interviewed
BBC Radio 4:
Start the Week with Helen King and Ruth Padel, chaired by Amanda Vickery 11 November 2024, Sex and Christianity https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024w7d
Commentary in 3-part How the Irish shaped Britain with Fergal Keane, Jan./Feb. 2021: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000r370
Commentary in 4-part The Invention of Britain with Misha Glenny, Feb./March 2019: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002rmj
Book of the Week: The Reformation: 5-part series of authored talks, January 2017: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b087pr2y
The Afternoon Shift
Battling with the Past
Great Lives with Francine Stock: Thomas Cromwell https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glwph
Multiple appearances on In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg:
Episode on William Cecil (7 March 2019)
Episode on the Siege of Malta (11 January 2018)
Episode on the Battle of Lepanto (12 November 2015)
Episode on the Book of Common Prayer (17 October 2013)
Episode on Erasmus (9 February 2012)
Episode on Foxe's Book of Martyrs (18 November 2010)
Episode on Calvinism (25 February 2010)
Episode on the Siege of Münster (5 November 2009)
Episode on the Dissolution of the Monasteries (27 March 2008)
Episode on the Diet of Worms (12 October 2006)
Episode on the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (27 November 2003)
Last rites for the Church of England? with Andrew Brown
Multiple appearances on The Long View with Jonathan Freeland
The People’s History of England with Melvyn Bragg
The Root of all Evil: Christianity and money with Giles Fraser
Something Understood with Mark Tully
Start the Week with Andrew Marr
multiple appearances, Sunday programme
That’s History
Through the Courts
Today programme
Word for Word
BBC Radio Ulster: Sunday Sequence: frequently interviewed
BBC Scotland: Sally on Sunday, interview 30 May 2010
National and local radio short talks, US and UK: frequent interviews
Podcasts, blogs and DVDs include
Podcasts connected with Oxford University viewable via https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/people/diarmaid-macculloch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAaEocXpcAk : ‘How to Write Rigorously’, with David Perell, 27 January 2026
https://cowenconvos.libsyn.com/diarmaid-macculloch-on-christianity-sex-and-unsettling-settled-facts?fbclid=IwY2xjawP3-ldleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBPWURLWUZ0bWZVaFV4ek1xc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhEaUUfrVCp7BxjYsYcrEEhFT9iDX7Dx-Zcxw7NwNxvoHZK40dCMfk8sfFcj_aem_Fahr3qmVmB7JiP79slx4pw : Conversations with Tyler: ‘Christianity, Sex and Unsettling Facts’, 29 October 2025
https://shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-sheets : Betwixt the Sheets: the History of Sex, Scandal and Society: ‘The Real Virgin Mary’, 19 September 2025
https://youtu.be/UsGM6wZgacE?si=2Rphv5yMrCsiXCwy or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lower-than-the-angels-a-history-of-sex-and-christianity/id1308062825?i=1000724534534 : Lower than the Angels, episode of Tudors Dynasty and Beyond with Rebecca Larson, 2 September 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78HSOUODK3E : Alex O’Connor, Within Reason, with Diarmaid MacCulloch – ‘Sex and Christianity: a tumultuous history’, May 2025
https://congregationallibrary.org/events/lower-than-the-
angels : ‘Lower than the Angels: a History of Sex and Christianity’, 16 April 2025
https://www.parthenonpodcast.com/history-unplugged-podcast/roman-churches-had-no-involvement-in-marriage-how-did-it-become-a-holy-sacrament-by-the-middle-ages : History Unplugged, November 2024
https://deepcast.fm/episode/introducing-this-is-history-in-conversation : Dan Jones with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Helen Castor, ‘This is History: a Dynasty to Die for’, November 2024
Intelligence Squared: A History of Sex and Christianity https://open.spotify.com/episode/3sJZmJwvoX3mkQJqsL9nzR ; posted 9 October 2024
https://play.acast.com/s/historyextra/the-big-questions-of-religious-history : Chair of discussion for History Extra, ‘The Big Questions of Religious History’; posted 30 August 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li1yve9g-6A : Religion Media Centre: conversation with Roger Bolton: posted 29 July 2022
https://csgs.kcl.ac.uk/book-review/anthony-milton-englands-second-reformation-the-battle-for-the-church-of-england-1625-1662-cambridge-university-press-2021/ King’s College London, Centre for the Study of Governance and Society Book Reviews Section, March 2022
https://www.cctdigital.com/?fbclid=IwAR2fuEsf-PT4mudRKf228y51oXKMSuKGrgm4_TRmxIz1-_vnRIna9wsT48U: the filmed version of ‘Church Crawls in Solitude’ for the Churches Conservation Trust, December 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEFP-CHgixw [Jaipur Festival 2021: Diarmaid MacCulloch in conversation with William Dalrymple on ‘Christianity: the first three thousand years’:]
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rise-and-fall-of-thomas-cromwell/id208318433?i=1000512379408 National Archives Podcasts, 18 December 2020
https://modernchurch.org.uk/prof-diarmaid-macculloch-living-in-love-and-faith : A review for Modern Church of the Church of England’s Living in Love and Faith, 16 November 2020
https://religionmediacentre.org.uk/analysis/analysis-down-with-a-splash-who-complained-when-saddams-statue-was-toppled/ 10 June 2020
https://www.mayflower-400.com/ Interviews on The Mayflower 400: multiple DVD set 2020
https://solitudes.qmul.ac.uk/podcasts/ ‘Solitudes, Past and Present: Ep. 8 – on Spiritual Solitude’: A conversation between Diarmaid MacCulloch and Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, February 2020.
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/history-2019-wolfson-prize-shortlist/: a conversation with Sophie Roell
https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2018/nov/27/the-art-of-biography-with-diarmaid-macculloch-and-ken-krimstein-books-podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbTfGmVoyZY [Diarmaid MacCulloch on Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII and the Reformation]
https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/2019/03/21/268a-thomas-cranmer-with-diarmaid-macculloch/
https://wayswithwords.co.uk/words-by-the-water-replay-friday/ [A talk and conversation on Thomas Cromwell, Keswick 2019]
https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/2018/11/11/261a-professor-macculloch-talks-cromwell/
https://www.ashmolean.org/rev-professor-diarmaid-maccullock-henry-viii-renaissance-medal or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCERnxwtHco&list=PLEXVZtyk7EYUURurfwvvCJ0BV2qvTzckL&index=11
https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on-2018/thomas-cromwell-conversation
https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/episodes/Diarmaid-MacCulloch-e2lus2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITanPvhaLyg What does the Church of England offer the next generation? University Church, Oxford, 2014