We've mentioned Lucy Worsley's tv shows on the Forum before but not so far this year, so I wanted to point people interested in the more contemporary perspective on the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism during the Reformation to an episode from 2015 in her BBC series on Royal Secrets and Myths --
the episode titled "Henry VIII's Reformation" is available through PBS and some other commercial online sources (ads added to those) '
An example link here: https://www.pbs.org/video/henry-viiis-reformation-qw5srg/
One of the talking heads on that episode is Jessie Childs, who appears frequently on the BBC radio (Front Row, Start the Week etc.) and TV, including the RTS Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents (BBC 2 & PBS), and BBC Four’s two recent series on Charles I: Downfall of a King and Killing a King.
Childs has written and reviewed for many publications, including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times, Literary Review, TLS and LRB.
Her 2015 book God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England, is a page-turner that uses the popular method of following one family's experiences over the course of a few generations, during Elizabeth I's rule,
This isn't only about a better understanding of 16th century England -- it's ramifications continue to our day in the UK and all across its former colonies, where Protestant myths underlie important aspects of the current iterations of English and American exceptionalism.