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14 de abr. de 2020 · Poor Thomas Cromwell.He has rarely been given a good press – even in the triumphant island story as told by the champions of Protestant England, in which the pope’s deluded followers were repeatedly put in their place so the British empire could flourish and spread Christian civilisation far and wide.
Thomas Cromwell’s sister Katherine had married a Welsh lawyer, Morgan Williams. Their son Richard Williams went to live in the household of his uncle Thomas, becoming his protégé. Even after Thomas Cromwell fell from power, Richard continued to prosper at court, gaining a knighthood and lands in Huntingdonshire.
12 de dez. de 2018 · Thomas Cromwell was born, about 1485, the son of an upwardly mobile yeoman who settled in Putney outside London as a brewer and tavern-keeper. These low origins and years in Europe as a young adult shaped both Thomas and his career. He gained an easy familiarity with continental languages that would serve him well when the king’s business ...
6 de out. de 2018 · ISBN-13: 978-1846144295. Publisher: Allen Lane. Guideline Price: £30. “Beneath every history, another history,” remarks Thomas Cromwell in Hillary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. On page, stage, and ...
4 de abr. de 2015 · Thomas Cromwell, a Man for All Centuries. SUDDENLY, after 500 years of infamy and obscurity, here comes Thomas Cromwell: blacksmith’s boy, petty thief, visionary bureaucrat, shrewd banker ...
4th January, 2016. Thomas Cromwell and the ‘ungoodly’ executioner. By John Schofield. Edward Hall, the Tudor historian, completes his account of the last moments of Thomas Cromwell, after his last speech and prayer, in this way: Cromwell ‘godly and lovingly exhorted them that were about him on the scaffold’ and committed his soul to God ...
Listen to the podcast. In this episode Historic Royal Palaces’ Chief Curator Tracy Borman explores one of her favourite topics, the turbulent life of Thomas Cromwell and his relationship with the English Reformation. This talk was recorded live at Hampton Court Palace in 2017. More episodes.
