Alexandra Walsham CBE is Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University and the current President of the Historical Association. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy and was appointed a CBE for services to History in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2017. She specialises in the religious and cultural history of early modern Britain, especially the impact of the Protestant and Catholic reformations. Professor Walsham has published widely in this field and her books include Providence in Early Modern England (OUP 1999; winner of the Longman History Today Prize) and The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland (OUP 2011; joint winner of the Wolfson History Prize).
In this evening’s lecture she will examine how 17th century perceptions of Stonehenge and the historic landscape were shaped by the religious and political upheavals of the Reformation and Civil Wars.