Join us in our historic Chapel for a lecture by historian Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of Thomas Cromwell: A Life. The Chapel, which originally served as the monks’ chapter house is one of the buildings Cromwell himself may have visited during the turbulent 1530s.
Thomas Cromwell rose rapidly to power, becoming Henry VIII’s chief minister and a driving force behind the English Reformation. As the architect of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, he oversaw the suppression of the London Charterhouse, a prestigious Carthusian monastery on the edge of the City, and the subsequent imprisonment and execution of 16 of its monks. Professor MacCulloch will explore this pivotal moment in history, and how the Charterhouse was subsequently transformed into an aristocratic mansion, and later an almshouse which it remains to this day.
Lecture – 6.00-7.00pm
Drinks reception – 7.00-8.00pm
£20 (£18 concession)
Portrait of Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein the Younger c. 1532–33. The Frick Collection, New York. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
