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The Legacy of Thomas Cromwell: Principal Secretaries and the Privy Council, 1540-1547

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This is a past event
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5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Location

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Institute

Institute of Historical Research

Event type

Seminar

Event series

Tudor & Stuart History

Speakers

Caitlin Burge (Luxembourg Centre For Contemporary and Digital History)

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The dominance of the Privy Council and the relative diminishment of the Principal Secretaries after the fall of Thomas Cromwell in 1540 has often been considered a failure of the chief minister’s ability to establish a long-lasting legacy, or G. R. Elton’s ‘administrative revolution.’ Yet using epistolary networks to compare interaction profiles from before and after Cromwell’s death, this paper will instead frame the rise of the Privy Council as an intentional – if not fully realised – element of Cromwell’s legacy, designed by the chief minister before his fall from power, demonstrating how Cromwell continued to shape governance after his death.

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