If you’ve ever seen the film A Man for All Seasons about the trial and execution of St. Thomas More, you know this unforgettable line, spoken by More just moments before his beheading for opposing ...

Thomas Cromwell hadn’t exactly fallen off the historical radar in the five centuries since he lost his head to Henry VIII, but he has enjoyed even wider recent fame thanks to Hilary Mantel’s novels ...

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, ...