Lucy Wooding to Give Talk on Tudor Religion
Leading reformation scholar's lecture hosted by Ealing Historical Association
Prof. Lucy Wooding. Picture: Lincoln College, Oxford
October 22, 2025
The Ealing Branch of the Historical Association will welcome Professor Lucy Wooding on Tuesday 4 November for an evening lecture exploring the complexities of religious change during the English Reformation. The event will take place from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at Twyford CofE High School, W3 9PP.
Titled English Reformations: Continuity and Change in Tudor Religion, the talk will examine the competing forces that shaped religious transformation in sixteenth-century England. Professor Wooding will consider how royal policy, popular sentiment, intellectual movements, and international pressures all played a role in reshaping religious life — and how elements of continuity persisted despite political upheaval.
The English Reformation remains one of the most contested subjects in early modern British history, with interpretations ranging from grassroots enthusiasm to top-down enforcement. This lecture will offer a nuanced perspective on how religious identity evolved across the Tudor period.
Professor Lucy Wooding is the Langford Fellow and Tutor in History at Lincoln College, Oxford, and a leading authority on Tudor England and the Reformation. Her academic career spans appointments at Queen’s University Belfast and King’s College London, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Her most recent book, Tudor England: A History (Yale University Press, 2022), has been praised for its wide-ranging analysis of political, religious, and social life under the Tudors. In it, Wooding moves beyond court intrigue to explore the lived experiences of ordinary people, offering a fresh interpretation of the period’s enduring tensions and transformations.
Further details are available at www.ealinghistory.org.uk
Admission is free for students. Visitors are welcome to attend for a fee of £5, while annual membership to the Ealing Branch is available for £15. Further details can be found at www.ealinghistory.org.uk.
Meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month at Ealing Green Church at 7.30pm, with the exception of the November meeting which takes place at Twyford School at 6.30pm. Talks are live events but with the speaker’s permission the association aims to make a recording available afterwards to those registering on Eventbrite (the booking link will be available on the society's website one month in advance of each talk).
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