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Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and by the end of the 1530s he was effectively running the country for the King. As portrayed in the BBC hit-series Wolf Hall, that decade was one of the most momentous in English history: it saw a religious break with the Pope, unprecedented use of parliament, the dissolution of all monasteries. Cromwell was central to all this, but establishing his role with precision, at a distance of nearly five centuries and after the destruction of many of his papers at his own fall, has been notoriously difficult. Join historian Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of Thomas Cromwell: A Life, as he examines the legacy of this elusive figure, revealing important new insights. Discover Cromwell's true place in the making of modern England and Ireland, for good and ill.