Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Modern 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. She co-edited the journal Past and Present for a decade and delivered the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford in 2018.

• Introduction


• 1: Youth and Age


• 2: Kith and Kin


• 3: Blood and Trees


• 4: Generations and Seed


• 5: History and Time


• 6: Memory and Archive


• Conclusion

Generations examines how the English Reformation was shaped by the generations that experienced, witnessed, and participated in it. Drawing on a rich array of evidence, it highlights the vital part played by families bound by blood and by faith in the religious revolution that stretched across the 16th and 17th centuries.