2nd Annual Historians’ Lecture & Dinner

The Rev. Professor Diarmaid N.J. MacCulloch, Kt, DD, FBA
'Christianity: Lost Futures and Present Realities'

In this, the second annual historians' lecture and dinner, St Edmund's is delighted to welcome Professor Sir Diarmaid McCulloch to the College as guest speaker on the topic of 'Christianity: Lost Futures & Present Realities'.

Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church, in the Theology Faculty at Oxford University; he is a Fellow of the British Academy, and co-edited the Journal of Ecclesiastical History for two decades.

As a student and lecturer, during his time in Cambridge, Sir Diarmaid was a member of St Giles’ Church Choir and is the Patron of the Friends of St Giles’ Church, Cambridge, who have kindly invited Sir Diarmaid to speak.

Professor MacCulloch was the presenter on BBC4 and BBC2 of "A History of Christianity - the first 3,000 years", which won the Radio Times Listeners' Award in 2010, "How God made the English" (BBC2, 2012) and "Henry VIII's fixer: the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell" (BBC2, 2013); his BBC2 series Sex and the West aired in spring 2015.

He has written extensively on Tudor England; his biography Thomas Cranmer: a Life (Yale UP, 1996) won the Whitbread Biography, Duff Cooper and James Tait Black Prizes. More recent publications from Penguin/Allen Lane have included Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (appearing in the USA as The Reformation: a History), and A History of Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years (in the USA, Christianity: the First Three Thousand Years), which won the 2010 Cundill Prize; his latest book is Silence: a Christian History. He has just published a biography of Thomas Cromwell.

He received a knighthood in January 2012 for services to scholarship.

The Lecture will be followed by a drinks reception at 19:00 and formal dinner in Hall at 19:30, as part of the Guest Night Dinner.

You are invited to dine with Sir Diarmaid after the lecture, however spaces are limited and therefore early registration is advised.

Image: Procession from Little St Mary's to St Giles' on 14th July 1933, celebrating the Centenary of the Oxford Movement.