How has the memory of the Reformation been an important element is the creation of English identity? In this video, Prof. Frances Knight argues that for an older generation – perhaps brought up on the Ladybird history books of Laurence duGarde Peach (1890-1974) – this was an important element in cultural identity, but that for younger people those divisions – such as between ‘church / chapel’, ‘Catholic / Protestant’ – are becoming a thing of the past.

This video is an excerpt from a seminar – Remembering the Reformation - held in Nottingham in May 2017 to commemorate the fifth centenary of the Reformation. For the other speakers’ contributions and the hour of discussion which followed, please search for Remembering the Reformation 1517 - 2017.