10-Minute Talks

Making the real Thomas Cromwell stand up


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Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt FBA talks about how to understand Thomas Cromwell, even though so many of his own letters have vanished from his vast surviving archive.

Speaker: Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch Kt FBA, Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford; Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford

The world’s leading professors explain the latest thinking in the humanities and social sciences in just 10 minutes. 

Image: © Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex by Hans Holbein the Younger / CC National Portrait Gallery, London

Transcript: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/10-minute-talks-making-the-real-thomas-cromwell-stand-up/ 

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