Lucy Wooding Explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Lucy Wooding
Birth Name:Lucy Elizabeth Catherine Wooding
Nationality:British
Occupation:Historian and academic
Professor of History
Children:3
Alma Mater:Magdalen College, Oxford
Thesis Title:From humanists to heretics: English Catholic theology and ideology, c.1530-c.1570
Thesis Year:1994
Doctoral Advisor:Susan Brigden
Discipline:History
Workplaces:Queen's University Belfast
King's College London
Lincoln College, Oxford
Notable Works:Tudor England: A History

Lucy Elizabeth Catherine Wooding (also Kostyanovsky)[1] is a British historian of Tudor England. She is Professor of History at the University of Oxford and Langford Fellow and Tutor in History at Lincoln College.[2]

Academic career

Wooding completed her undergraduate and doctoral degrees at Magdalen College, Oxford, where her doctoral supervisor was Susan Brigden.[3] After completing her DPhil in 1994 she became a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, before moving to King's College London in 1995. She became Reader in History at King's in 2015 before she joined Lincoln College in October 2016, succeeding her former supervisor Brigden as the college's tutor in early modern history.[3] She was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of History by the University of Oxford in October 2024.[4]

In addition to her academic roles, Wooding has served as Fellow Archivist and Welfare Dean for Lincoln College since 2021[5] and as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Faculty of History since 2022.[6]

She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[7]

Research

Wooding's doctoral research focused on Catholic theology during the English Reformation, and she published her first monograph on this topic, Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England, in 2000.[8] Her second book, published in 2009, was a biography of Henry VIII.[9] Reformation historian Peter Marshall called the book "the best general biography of Henry VIII in nearly half a century".[10] Her third, Tudor England: A History, was published by Yale University Press in 2022.[11]

Beyond her monographs, Wooding has contributed journal articles and book chapters on subjects such as Erasmus' Bible translations,[12] John Jewel's Apology for the Church of England,[13] and the printing of books during the Marian Restoration.[14]

Media work

Wooding appeared as a panelist on an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time in November 2009, discussing the Siege of Munster with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Charlotte Methuen.[15] She also appeared twice on Suzannah Lipscomb's podcast Not Just the Tudors, discussing life in Tudor England in November 2022[16] and the life of Henry VIII in November 2023.[17]

Wooding also contributes reviews of early modern history books to Literary Review,[18] London Review of Books,[19] Times Higher Education[20] and Times Literary Supplement.[21]

Personal life

Wooding is married with three children.[22]

Bibliography

Books

Articles

Chapters

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lucy Kostyanovsky . King's College London . 8 September 2024.
  2. Web site: Professor Lucy Wooding . Faculty of History, University of Oxford . 4 September 2024.
  3. Web site: Professor Lucy Wooding . Lincoln College, Oxford . 4 September 2024.
  4. Recognition of Distinction . University of Oxford Gazette . 3 October 2024 . 155 . 5431 . 21 .
  5. Web site: Lincoln College Record, 2022-23 . Lincoln College, Oxford . 4 September 2024.
  6. Web site: University of Oxford Calendar, Michaelmas 2022 . University of Oxford . 4 September 2024.
  7. Web site: List of Fellows (February 2024) . Royal Historical Society . 4 September 2024.
  8. Book: Wooding . Lucy . Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England . 2000 . . Oxford . 0198208650.
  9. Book: Wooding . Lucy . Henry VIII . 2009 . . London . 9780415339964.
  10. Web site: Henry VIII - 2nd Edition . Routledge . 8 September 2024.
  11. Book: Wooding . Lucy . Tudor England: A History . 2022 . . New Haven . 9780300162721.
  12. Wooding . Lucy . Erasmus and the Politics of Translation in Tudor England . . 2017 . 53 . 132-145.
  13. Book: John Jewel, Elizabethan Religion and the Invention of the Church of England. 2019. Defending the Faith: John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church. Angela Ranson. André A. Gazal. Sarah Bastow. Lucy Wooding. 1-17. Penn State University Press. Penn State University Park.
  14. Book: A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558. 2014. 307-324. Lucy Wooding. Boydell & Brewer. Catholicism, the Printed Book and the Marian Restoration. Vincent Gillespie. Susan Powell.
  15. Web site: In Our Time, The Siege of Munster . BBC Radio 4 . 6 September 2024.
  16. Web site: Not Just the Tudors - Life in Tudor England . Apple Podcasts . 6 September 2024.
  17. Web site: Not Just the Tudors - Henry VIII: What You Really Need to Know . Apple Podcasts . 6 September 2024.
  18. Web site: Lucy Wooding . Literary Review . 4 September 2024.
  19. Web site: Lucy Wooding . London Review of Books . 5 September 2024.
  20. Web site: Lucy Wooding . Times Higher Education . 4 September 2024.
  21. Web site: Lucy Wooding Archives . Times Literary Supplement . 6 September 2024.
  22. Book: Wooding . Lucy . Tudor England: A History . 2022 . . New Haven . 978-0-300-16272-1 . xii.

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