Intelligence Squared
How One Family Remade Britain: Thomas and Oliver Cromwell, with Miranda Malins
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Thomas Cromwell helped Henry VIII break with Rome, reshape government and establish the Church of England. A century later, his distant relative Oliver Cromwell helped defeat a king, establish a republic and became Lord Protector. Both men are usually remembered as exceptional commoners who rose through talent and ruthless pragmatism. But neither rose alone.
What does the familiar ‘great man’…