Macaulay, Thomas Babington 418
Macaulay, Zachary 418, 482
MacDonald, Ramsay 519, 522, 529
Machyn, Henry 296
MacInnes, David 551
Mackay, Alexander 484
Macmillan, Harold 537, 543
Madan, Martin 387
Maddocks, Morris, Bishop 562
Magna Carta 119–21, 125, 130–1, 142
Mailduph, Abbot of Malmesbury 50
Major, John 561, 564
Malcolm III, king of Scotland 90, 103
Maldon, Essex 74
Malmesbury, Wiltshire 50
Maltby, Bishop of Durham 439
Manchester Guardian 509–10
Mancini, Dominic 228
Mandela, Nelson 552
Mann, Horace 455–6, 490
Manning, Henry, Cardinal 450, 456, 458, 471, 493–4, 511
Manning, Robert, Handling Synne 206
Mansfield, William Murray, Lord Chief Justice 420
Margaret, Princess 546
Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England 225, 226, 227, 228
Margaret of England, Queen of Scots 128
Margaret of Wessex 90, 103
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria 405
Marine Society 406
Mark, Gospel of 10
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of 370, 371, 375
Marnham, Charles and Tricia 562
Marriage Act (1753) 389
marriages, numbers of 490, 506
Marsh, Adam 177
Marshal, William 121, 123, 274
Marshall, Michael, Bishop 568
Martin, Gregory 311–12
Martin, Thomas 290
Martin Marprelate Tracts 303
Martin of Tours 30, 34
Martineau, Harriet 465, 492
Martyn, Henry 434
Marvell, Andrew 359, 361
Mary, Queen
birth 243
declared illegitimate 252
disinherited by Act of Succession 259
persists in Catholicism 278
claims the throne 281–3
marriage to Philip of Spain 283–4
attempts to re-establish Roman Catholicism 285–9
burning of Thomas Cranmer 290–1
Elizabeth’s position under 295
Mary, Queen of Scots 270, 301, 303, 304, 308–9, 313, 319
Mary II, Queen 357, 369, 371–3
Mary of Modena 359, 371
Mary Tudor, Queen of France 241, 281
Masefield, John 515
mass 151, 186
Massie, Joseph 386
Matilda, Empress 104–5, 107
Matilda of Flanders 86
Matilda of Scotland 90, 103
Maurice, F. D. 470, 491
Maximilian, Holy Roman Emperor 240
Maynooth seminary 452
McGrath, Alastair 568
Mearns, Andrew 477
Medici, Lorenzo de 235
Meiderlin, Peter 363
Melanchthon, Philipp 244, 248, 270, 286, 297
Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount (Lord Melbourne) 430, 437, 451
Mellitus, Bishop of London 31, 32
Melrose monastery 44
Mercia 27, 52–3, 56
Merry del Val, Rafael 511
Methodism
rise of 391, 394, 397–9
and social activism 413
Toleration Act (1812) 425
divisions in 458–9
and hymn-singing 586
hymn-singing 509
proposed merge with Anglicanism 542
falling membership 554
see also Wesley, John
Methodist Conference 458–9
Meyer, F. B. 510
Michelangelo 251
middle class, growth of 386–7
Migne, Patrologia Latina 48
Mildmay, Sir Walter 302
Mill, John Stuart 443
Millais, John Everett 443
Millar, Sandy 563
Milne, A. A., Winnie the Pooh 492
Milner, Alfred, 1st Viscount 497, 498
Milner, Isaac 419
Milner, Joseph 446
Milner-White, Eric 519
Milton, John 326, 329–30, 361–2, 582
Milvian Bridge, Battle of (312) 14
miners’ strike
(1920s) 521–2
(1980s) 558, 560
Mines Act (1842) 431
Mirandola, Pico della 235, 257
Mirk, John 150, 206
missionaries, Catholic 309–13
missionary societies 385, 422, 434–5, 481–6, 507–8, 592
Mission-Shaped Church (2004) 573–4
Moffat, Mary 483
Moltke, Helmuth von 513
Molyneux, William 367
Mombasa, Kenya 484
monasticism
origins 34, 158
Irish 19, 34–6
Northumbrian 46–9, 68
in the Middle Ages 138–45, 230
education and social care 588
see also dissolution of the monasteries
Monck, General 349
Mongols 172
Monkwearmouth-Jarrow monasteries 24, 41, 46–9, 68, 580
Monmouth’s Rebellion (1685) 370
Mons Badonicus, Battle of 24, 25
Mons Graupius, Battle of (83 AD) 9–10
Montague, Charles 352
Moore, Henry 402
Moore, John, General 423
moral attitudes survey (2019) 565–6
Moravians 395–6
Morcar of Northumbria 89–90
More, Hannah 418, 422, 590
More, Thomas 184, 228, 249, 249–50, 256–60, 262, 290
Morgan, Richard 394
Morgan, William 394
Mormons (Latter-Day Saints) 462
Morrison, Herbert 536
Mortimer, Roger, 1st Earl of March 134
Morton, John, Archbishop of Canterbury 237, 257
Mothers’ Union 488
Mott, John R. 508, 521
Moule, Handley 491
Muggeridge, Malcolm 548
Muggletonians 347
Mumford, John and Eleanor 555
Murphy O’Connor, Cormac, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster 567, 568, 572
Murray, Grace 401–2
museums, London 455
music in worship 145, 585–6
Mussolini, Benito 527, 529
Mwanga, King 484
mystery plays 307
mysticism 198–206, 394, 582
Myth of God Incarnate (1977) 549, 555