

Westminster Abbey: A Church in History
Diarmaid MacCulloch and William Whyte
Thursday, 2 April 2020
6:00pm
1 hour
St Cross College
£7 - £12.50
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Social and architectural historian Professor William Whyte and leading historian and broadcaster Professor Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch discuss a new book in which distinguished historians consider Westminster Abbey’s place in history.
Westminster Abbey: A Church in History includes contributions from MacCulloch, Whyte and Sir David Cannadine. The book explores the abbey’s architecture, its Catholic monks and Protestant clergy, its place in political and religious revolutions, its relationship with the monarchy, its congregations and its tourists.
Whyte is professor of social and architectural history at the University of Oxford and author of Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space. MacCulloch is professor of the history of the Church at the University of Oxford. He is best known for his work, A History of Christianity, which won the Cundill and Hessel-Tiltman prizes and which he adapted into a six-part BBC television series. He is a fellow of the British Academy.
This event is part a series presented by the British Academy.




























































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