Historian Tristram Hunt looks at how Protestantism has affected people’s lives in The Protestant Revolution, a new, four-part series for BBC Four.
This is a story of a revolution which has affected every person in the West, and nearly every country in the world.
It is a revolution which influences the very fabric of existence – from what we do for a living, to who we vote for, who we go to war with and how we see ourselves as individuals and as nations.