Ward, of Boston, gave a lecture by special request on "The Removal of Romanism from the Church of England Three Centuries Ago." View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Before the Reformation, most people in England were Catholic. Their lives centred around the ideas and beliefs of the Catholic Church. This meant that, for many people, Henry’s break with Rome ...

Easter is the most important festival of the Christian calendar, and so it is unsuprising that most of England’s Pre-Reformation churches were adorned with artworks commemorating Christ’s passion and ...

As the Protestant Reformation progressed in Wales and England under the Tudor dynasty, except during Mary's reign, Catholics began to face persecution. In Wales one poet's response was to label ...

Before the Reformation, literacy in England was below 10%, and the Roman church largely monopolized education. The Protestant emphasis on individual reading—especially of the Bible ...

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turn their backs on a tumultuous period of the Reformation in England and head across the North Sea to the Netherlands. There, at least, they would have a chance to build new lives, to worship as ...

The concern of this collection of essays is to redress two balances at once: to tell the story of what the Reformation did for the towns of England, and of what the towns did for the Reformation.