Rags-to-riches hero or villainous torturer? The truth about Henry VIII's scheming right-hand man Thomas Cromwell
With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation ...
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The Real Story Behind ‘Wolf Hall’ and the Fall of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s Most Controversial Adviser
A 1532-1533 portrait of Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein the Younger Public domain via Wikimedia Commons A 1527 portrait of Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger Public domain via Wikimedia ...
In the long-awaited sequel to "Wolf Hall," mortality stalks Cromwell's conscience
In Mantel's Tudor trilogy, adapted first in "Wolf Hall" (2015) and then in its long-awaited sequel, "Wolf Hall: The Mirror ...
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Thomas Cromwell
Image: Thomas Cromwell as the Earl of Essex, painted by Hans Holbein the Younger (Getty Images) Diarmaid MacCulloch visits the brewery that Cromwell's father used to run. Diarmaid MacCulloch ...
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That Portrait of Trump
President Trump’s umbrage at the portrait of himself hanging at the Colorado Capitol may be a choice, but it is hardly novel ...