OLIVER CROMWELL was twenty-two years old when James I. wrote indignantly to the Speaker of the House of Commons, commanding " that none therein shall presume henceforth to meddle with anything ...

Thomas Cromwell rose from obscure and violent beginnings to become the most powerful statesman in Tudor England. He ...

THE most notable contributions to the historical literature of England during the year 1897 are two volumes by Samuel R. Gardiner : the Oxford lectures, Cromwell’s Place in History, published in the ...

Here's Thomas Cromwell at New York's Frick Collection, trapped in canvas by the Tudor court painter Hans Holbein: thick fingers gripping a secret missive, thin lips curled into a truculent frown, ...

Tudor England was a treacherous place for ambitious courtiers, as the steady rise and sudden tragic fall of Thomas Cromwell—one of the chief architects of the English Reformation under King Henry VIII ...