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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.

Selected bibliography

  • From Cranmer to Sancroft (2007)
  • The Reformation (2003)
  • Lady Margaret Beaufort and Her Professors of Divinity at Cambridge: 1502-1649 by Patrick Collinson, Richard Rex and Graham Stanton (2003)
  • Elizabethans (2003)
  • The Short Oxford History of the British Isles: The 16th Century (2001)
  • A History of Emmanuel College, Cambridge by Sarah Bendall, Christopher Brooke and Patrick Collinson (1999)
  • The Reformation in English Towns edited by Patrick Collinson and John Craig (1998)
  • A History of Canterbury Cathedral edited by Patrick Collinson, Nigel Ramsay and Margaret Sparks (1995)
  • Elizabethan Essays (1994)
  • The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1990)
  • The Birthpangs of Protestant England (1988)
  • Godly People: Essays on English Protestantism and Puritanism (1983)
  • The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society 1559-1625 (1982)
  • Archbishop Grindal 1519-1583: The Struggle for a Reformed Church (1980)

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subscriber-only content Five Feet Tall in His Socks · 5 June 2008

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

subscriber-only content Not Biographable · 29 November 2007

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

subscriber-only content Grisly Creed · 22 February 2007

subscriber-only content A Very Active Captain · 22 June 2006

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

subscriber-only content La Bolaing · 18 November 2004

subscriber-only content Part of the Fun of being an English Protestant · 22 July 2004

subscriber-only content The Cow Bells of Kitale · 5 June 2003

subscriber-only content Saints on Sundays, Devils All the Week After · 19 September 2002

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

subscriber-only content Through Trychay’s Eyes · 25 April 2002

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

subscriber-only content What news? · 1 November 2001

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

subscriber-only content Walsingham’s Plumber · 5 July 2001

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

subscriber-only content And Cabbages Too · 22 March 2001

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

subscriber-only content Holy-Rowly-Powliness · 4 January 2001

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

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Little Bastard · 6 July 2000

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

 not available in archive Unusual Endowments · 30 March 2000

  • Philip Sidney: A Double Life by Alan Stewart

 not available in archive Playboy’s Paperwork · 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

 not available in archive A Calamitous Man · 29 July 1999

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

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