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Find sources: "Christopher Haigh" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Christopher Haigh FRHistS Born (1944-08-28) 28 August 1944 (age 81) Birkenhead, Merseyside, England Occupations Historian and academic Spouse Alison Wall Children 2 Academic background Alma mater Churchill College, Cambridge Victoria University of Manchester Influences Geoffrey Elton[1] Academic work Discipline History Sub-discipline Early modern Britain English Reformation Political history Elizabethan era Institutions University of Manchester Christ Church, Oxford **Christopher A. Haigh** [FRHistS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Historical_Society)[2] (born 28 August 1944) is a British historian specialising in religion and politics around the English Reformation. Until his retirement in 2009, he was Student and Tutor in Modern History at [Christ Church, Oxford](/source/Christ_Church%2C_Oxford) and University Lecturer at [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University). He was educated at [Churchill College, Cambridge](/source/Churchill_College%2C_Cambridge) and the [Victoria University of Manchester](/source/Victoria_University_of_Manchester). Haigh was a very influential revisionist in Tudor [historiography](/source/Historiography) and on the [English Reformation](/source/English_Reformation). Haigh's writings mostly demonstrated that, contrary to orthodox understandings of the English Reformation, religious reform was extremely complex and varied considerably at a parish level.[3] Haigh has also been noted for his work in diminishing the significance attributed to anticlericalism prior to 1530.[4][5] His revisionism formed part of a broader wave in Tudor historiography with other historians such as [Eamon Duffy](/source/Eamon_Duffy) and also formed the basis for the theory of the [long reformation](/source/Long_reformation).[6] ## Personal life Haigh is married to fellow historian Alison Wall.[7] ## Works - *Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire*, [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), 1975 - *The English Reformation Revised*, [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), 1987 - *English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors*, [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 1993 - *Politics in an Age of Peace and War, 1570-1630* in *The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain*, Oxford, 1996, pp. 330–360 - *Elizabeth I*, London, 1988 - *Success and Failure in the English Reformation*, [Past & Present](/source/Past_%26_Present_(journal)). Vol 173 (1) (2001) pp. 28–49 - *The Troubles of [Thomas Pestell](/source/Thomas_Pestell_(born_1584)): Parish Squabbles and Ecclesiastical Politics in Caroline England*, [Journal of British Studies](/source/Journal_of_British_Studies). Vol 41 (2002) pp. 403–428 - *The Reformation in England to 1603* in *The Blackwell Companion to the Reformation*, Oxford, 2003 - *Clergy JPs in England and Wales, 1590-1640*, [The Historical Journal](/source/The_Historical_Journal), vol 47, 2004, pp. 233–259 - *The Character of an Antipuritan*, [Sixteenth Century Journal](/source/Sixteenth_Century_Journal), vol XXXV, 2004, pp. 671–88 - *A G Dickens and the English Reformation*, [Historical Research](/source/Historical_Research), vol 77, 2004, pp. 24–38 - *The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640*, [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 2007 ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Christopher Haigh (2007). *The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640*. Oxford: [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780199216505](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780199216505). p. v: I didn't see myself as another Geoffrey Elton, but as I had been taught and much influenced by him it seemed obvious to tackle the job of writing as he did. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["List of Fellows (February 2024)"](https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/22170322/Fellows_February-2024.xlsb.pdf) (PDF). *Royal Historical Society*. Retrieved 23 April 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Tom Betteridge (2003) Recent English Reformation Historiography: People, Places and Processes, Reformation, 8:1, 199-211, 199. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Tom Betteridge (2003) Recent English Reformation Historiography: People, Places and Processes, Reformation, 8:1, 199-211, 200 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** HAIGH, CHRISTOPHER. "ANTICLERICALISM AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION." History 68, no. 224 (1983): 391-407. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/24417597](http://www.jstor.org/stable/24417597). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Taylor, Stephen (2025). ["The long Reformation: conceptualisation and periodisation in English religious history between the 16th and 18th centuries"](https://www.easbh.org/_files/ugd/2393d2_24ef9f96133949728f67fbb99081e4a1.pdf#page=105) (PDF). *East Asian Journal of British History*. **9**: 102. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Christopher Haigh (2007). *The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640*. Oxford: [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press). p. vii. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780199216505](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780199216505). ## External links - [\[1\]](http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/postholder/haigh_ca.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120229130255/http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/postholder/haigh_ca.htm) 29 February 2012 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) Christopher Haigh's website - [\[2\]](http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=178631§ioncode=22) article by Haigh on [Roderigo Lopez](/source/Rodrigo_L%C3%B3pez_(physician)) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Italy Czech Republic Netherlands Poland Israel Belgium Other IdRef Yale LUX This article about an English historian or genealogist is a stub. 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