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The Mirror and the Light shows that Thomas Cromwell wanted to marry Jane Seymour. Is this historically accurate?
Basing House was a thorn in Parliament’s side. Commanding the road to London (held by the parliamentarians) the mansion hampered the city’s communications and its prosperous wool trade. It was ...
Nigel Farage declared that the "spirit of Oliver Cromwell is alive and well" as he slammed a proposed smoking ban. The Reform UK leader said he "likes a smoke" as he expressed his opposition to ...
Might young Conor Stone-Walsh be about to pick up the biggest ride of his career? Perceval Legallois is one of three horses shorter than 14-1 trained by Gavin Cromwell, with Cross Country Chase winner ...
You can give us the facts. But the idea that this place should make those decisions for other people, well it sort of shows me that the spirit of Oliver Cromwell is alive and well.” Mr Farage sa ...
John Ingles charts Gavin Cromwell's career from shoeing Cheltenham Festival winners to training them. Until last week, five trainers had trained both a Champion Hurdle and a Gold Cup winner this ...
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 ...
David Sheff’s new biography convincingly argues for John Lennon’s widow as a feminist, activist, avant-garde artist and world-class sass. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...
With her award-winning Wolf Hall series of books, Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic ... I was inspired to write a non-fiction biography so that I could find out where ...