Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Modern History and Chair of the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. A Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and of the British Academy, she has published extensively on the religious and cultural history of early modern Britain and Europe and is the author of several prize-winning monographs, including The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland, which won the Wolfson History Prize in 2012. She is co-editor of the journal Past and Present and serves on a number of other editorial boards.
Walsham's book, which had its own genesis in the Ford Lectures she gave in Oxford in 2018, is at the same time a work of formidable scholarship, and a deeply humane and fascinating read. It contains along the way some clear sighted judgements on a number of different historical debates, and makes important contributions to fields as various as the history of the family, the history of the book and the history of visual and material culture...It might be said that this book testifies to the ways in which the history of the English Reformation is itself coming of age. * Lucy Wooding, The Tablet *