Alexandra Walsham

About

Alexandra Walsham holds the established Chair of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the British Academy. She has published widely on the religious and cultural history of early modern Britain. Her books include Providence in Early Modern England (1999), Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England 1500-1700 (2006), and The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (2011), which was joint winner of the Wolfson History Prize. Her most recent book is Generations: Age, Ancestry and Memory in the English Reformations (OUP, 2023), based on the Ford Lectures she delivered at the University of Oxford. Between 2016 and 2019, she was Principal Investigator of the AHRC funded ‘Remembering the Reformation’ project.