Thomas Cromwell and the London Charterhouse: a lecture delivered by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Tuesday 7 July 2026 at 6pm
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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 £20 (£18 concession) |
About the speaker:
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford University, and Fellow of St Cross College and of Campion Hall. His Thomas Cranmer: a Life first appeared in 1996, winning inter alia the Whitbread Biography Prize. His History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (accompanied by the BBC TV series A History of Christianity) won the 2010 Cundill Prize; his Thomas Cromwell: a Life was published in 2018. His BBC TV series of 2015, Sex and the Church, was a foretaste of Lower than the Angels: a history of sex and Christianity (2024). Among other offices, he is President of the Ecclesiological Society, He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.
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Tuesday 7 July 2026 at 6pm
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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 £20 (£18 concession) |
About the speaker:
Diarmaid MacCulloch is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford University, and Fellow of St Cross College and of Campion Hall. His Thomas Cranmer: a Life first appeared in 1996, winning inter alia the Whitbread Biography Prize. His History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (accompanied by the BBC TV series A History of Christianity) won the 2010 Cundill Prize; his Thomas Cromwell: a Life was published in 2018. His BBC TV series of 2015, Sex and the Church, was a foretaste of Lower than the Angels: a history of sex and Christianity (2024). Among other offices, he is President of the Ecclesiological Society, He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.
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