Alec Ryrie

Ryrie was born in London, and raised in Washington, DC. After teaching for a year at a school in rural Zimbabwe, Ryrie read history as an undergraduate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1993, MA 1997), His doctoral work, examining how early English evangelical reformers operated within the political atmosphere of Henry VIII's reign, was published as The Gospel and Henry VIII. Ryrie lives in the Pennines with his wife and their two children, Ben and Adam. He has been a reader in the Church of England since 1997, and is licensed to the parish of Shotley St John in the diocese of Newcastle. ==Career==

From 1999 to 2006, he taught in the Department of Modern History at the University of Birmingham, and is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University, where he has worked since 2007. From 2012 to 2015 he was head of the Department of Theology and Religion. He completed a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2018. In 2024 he delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford University on "The World's Reformation". ==Works==

• The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It (2025) • The English Reformation: A Very Brief History (2020) • Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (2019) • Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World (2017) • Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (2013) • The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603 (2009) • ''The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England'' (2008) • The Origins of the Scottish Reformation (2006) • The Gospel and Henry VIII: Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation (2003) ==References==