Talk:Michael Wood (historian)

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[edit] Shakespeare & English History

On 2006-07-03, Michael Wood gave the Hugh Oldham Annual Lecture with the above title at Manchester Grammar School. DFH 08:08, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wood's credibility

Wikipedia is not the place for expressing personal opinions about a historian's credibility. By all means cite properly referenced critics of the views presented in any of his books or TV series, e.g. as quotations by other historians in writing or other media, but inserting an unreferenced personal criticism is not in accordance with Wikipedia policy, even if you think your critique is true. DFH 15:37, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

This was the text (originally added by Anglologist) that I have just removed from the main article for the above reasons:

Unfortunately Mr. Wood's credibility must be suspect concerning some of the facts presented in "In Search of Myths and Heros". In this presentation, he briefly refers to King Henry VIII turning England "Protestant". Not only did Henry consider himself a good Catholic, but the word "Protestant" did not exist until after his death and was coined to refer to representatives of various dissenting groups (whom the persons planning the coronation festivities called "Protestants" because they were protesting various practices of the Roman Catholic Church, mainly indulgences) who were to be included in the coronation parade of Henry's son, Edward VI. Henry only removed the English Church from the authority of the Pope to facilitate his desired divorce from Catherine of Aragon which Pope Clement VII would not allow. His son Edward did change the "national" religion to Protestantism, his daughter Mary I (Bloody Mary) changed it back Catholicism and finally his daughter Elizabeth I (Good Queen Bess) made the final change to Protestantism which remains to this day. If an error of this magnitude slipped by the researchers at the BBC and the historian himself, what other errors have been included that will be taken to be true to the historical facts by viewers?

Surrounding Italics mine. DFH 15:46, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:29, 8 March 2008 (UTC)