Patrick Collinson

Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.

In the LRB Archive:

• Five Feet Tall in His Socks: Farewell to the Muggletonians · 5 June 2008

  • Last Witnesses: The Muggletonian History, 1652-1979 by William Lamont

• Not Biographable: The Faithful Thomas Cromwell · 29 November 2007

  • Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister by Robert Hutchinson

• Grisly Creed: John Wyclif · 22 February 2007

  • John Wyclif: Myth and Reality by G.R. Evans

• A Very Active Captain: Henricentrism · 22 June 2006

  • The King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church by G.W. Bernard
  • Writing under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation by Greg Walker

• La Bolaing: Anne Boleyn · 18 November 2004

  • The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn by Eric Ives

• Part of the Fun of being an English Protestant: Recovering the Reformation · 22 July 2004

  • Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCulloch

• The Cow Bells of Kitale: The Selwyn Affair · 5 June 2003

• Saints on Sundays, Devils All the Week After: London Burnings · 19 September 2002

  • The Antichrist’s Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England by Peter Lake and Michael Questier

• Through Trychay’s Eyes on Reformation and rebellion · 25 April 2002

  • The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy

• What news? on the Pilgrimage of Grace · 1 November 2001

  • The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s by R.W. Hoyle

• Walsingham’s Plumber on John Bossy · 5 July 2001

  • Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story by John Bossy

• And Cabbages Too on the Tudors · 22 March 2001

  • New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603 by Susan Brigden

• Holy-Rowly-Powliness on the Prayer Book · 4 January 2001

  • Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England

• Little Bastard: Learning to be Queen · 6 July 2000

  • Elizabeth: Apprenticeship by David Starkey
  • Elizabeth I: Collected Works edited by Leah Marcus and Janel Mueller

• Unusual Endowments · 30 March 2000

  • Philip Sidney: A Double Life by Alan Stewart

• Playboy’s Paperwork on historiography and Elizabethan politics · 11 November 1999

  • The World of the Favourite edited by J.H. Elliott and L.W.B. Brockliss
  • The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-97 by Paul Hammer

• A Calamitous Man: Incombustible Luther · 29 July 1999

  • Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death by Richard Marius

• Austere and Manly Attributes · 3 April 1997

  • The Sound of Virtue: Philip Sidney’s ‘Arcadia’ and Elizabethan Politics by Blair Worden

• Elton at seventy · 11 June 1992

  • Return to Essentials: Some Reflections on the Present State of Historical Study by G.R. Elton

• Smelling the Gospel · 7 March 1991

  • London and the Reformation by Susan Brigden

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