Elected: 2025
Diarmaid MacCulloch (Kt, DD, FBA) is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford and of Campion Hall, Oxford, and prize-winning author and TV presenter. His History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (2009) won the 2010 Cundill Prize. Among his other books are Thomas Cromwell: a Life (2018) and Lower than the Angels: a History of Sex and Christianity (2024). Knighted in the UK New Year’s Honours List (2012), in 2019 he was awarded the Leopold Lucas Prize by the University of Tübingen (Germany).
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