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Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch argues the case that Thomas Cromwell was a pioneering statesman who laid the foundations for the modern British state. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01t03ky/henry-viiis-enforcer-the-rise-and-fall-of-thomas-cromwell?ns_mchannel=email&ns_source=PAN_SOLUS&ns_campaign=PANUK_DIV_04_IPL_Recommends_C+fortnightly&ns_linkname=bbctwo_henry8senforcerthomascromwell_FactualHistory_henry8senforcerthomascromwell&ns_fee=0

This is an amazing resource which gives a day to day account of Queen Elizabeth's reign compiled by: Marion Colthorpe’s The Elizabethan Court Day b y Day , published online in May and hosted by Folgerpedia The Elizabethan Court Day by Day - Folgerpedia

Your chance to listen to lecture on Shakespeare's Globe by the archaeologist who digs them. UCL ISH March Guest Lecture: Julian Bowsher, MOLA - 'Sustaining Shakespeare’s Stages' - YouTube Julian also appears in this short promo for the Cain Hoy Developers who are building a 37 story tower in Shoreditch.  What a pity a company who care so much for the area and are prepared to preserve its archaeology, care so little for the area as to disfigure it by an inappropriately high building? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la7027fleNU&feature=youtu.be

Thomas More & Thomas Cromwell's London - The City of Wolf Hall More  14:30 Sat 9th Jan 2016  Barbican Tube Austin Friars The Walk creates a portrait of London in the early 16th Century, with particular emphasis on the life and times of Thomas Cromwell and Thomas More. More and Cromwell had much in common, both lawyers, commoners, who rose to be Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII, and ended their career on the block at Tower Hill. The walk starts with an exploration of Smithfield  - site of the stake where Heretics were burnt alive and to St Bartholemew's Monastery - given to Richard Rich after his decisive role in the downfall of Thomas More. We  continue to St Paul where Martin Luther's books where burnt, and later, were Puritans attacked dancing round the Maypole. We walk along the main markets streets of London, to Thomas More's birthplace, and to the site of More's and Cromwell's townhouses before finishing at the site of the Scaffold where More ...