BIOGRAPHY THOMAS CROMWELL HAD MANY GIFTS; MAKING ENEMIES WAS ONE, THINKS DIARMAID MACCULLOCH

The Sunday Telegraph London | March 4, 2007| | Copyright

Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister

BY ROBERT HUTCHINSON

WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 20, 360 ppT pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

Poor Thomas Cromwell. He has rarely had a good press, even when history was written by the winners in Protestant England's triumphant island story, in which the Pope's deluded followers were repeatedly put in their place so that the British Empire could flourish and spread Christian civilisation far and wide. Henry VIII could take all the credit for making Tudor England walk tall, and he had the glamour which his ...

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