Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch | Cambridge Union

[@SuperDolly64]

This is what I want to see/hear on youtube-more please!!

[@dshepherd107]

Ty for uploading. Fascinating details about Cromwell. Brilliant lecture. Am dying to read MacCulloch’s book! Hillary Mantel’s books on Cromwell were phenomenal.

[@SusieWest5]

Yes they were! Just finished The Mirror and the Light - just brilliant.

[@Kaytecando]

hear, hear! Great lecture! Thank you for the upload!

[@alancumming6407]

Tremendously interesting and informative. Looking forward to reading the book.

[@ElizabethF2222]

Surprised to learn Anne Boleyn and Cromwell were enemies and Cromwell and Lady Mary were allies. Makes sense, though, since Anne was almost entirely responsible for Wolsey's fall. I can see where Cromwell would have detested her.

[@catherinenewman6516]

Thst comes out in the books

[@slightlygrumpy]

Interesting details, thank you very much.

[@chronicstitcher7933]

Excellent lecture, thank you

[@cambridgeunionsoc1815]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@SusieWest5]

Can you please put the links to the other of MacCulloch's Cromwell lectures in the blurb? Thanks

[@Mingtree10]

Excellent!

[@cinemaocd1752]

I know MacCulloch says that there have been no new letters since the last volume was published but I hate the author/translator of the letters, Roger Merriman, so much. He is clearly very biased against Cromwell and makes it clear on almost every page of the accompanying biography. I don't trust his read on the letters and I'd love to see someone at least a bit more neutral interpreting the letters.

[@BenTrem42]

Cromwell and Boleyn sees as allies?! That has never ever made sense to me. 9:47

[@amandaeliasch]

Brilliant

[@fanniterrette]

"The competition in tombness at the time" :-)

[@ElizabethF2222]

That was funny to me too. LOL

[@kathrynthompson9187]

Interesting still in 2022. DNA evidence bears out that Walter Cromwell, Thomas' father/Oliver Cromwell came from Ireland, but did not start there. They are English. There is however an Italian connection.

[@DonalLeader]

Just a side note on pronunciation. In the Irish language the pronunciation of Cromwell’s name is identical to that of McCulloch. Strengthens the Irish connection.

[@Peter-ov6xh]

@@DonalLeader They were still ethnically English.

[@teresavcarabini3799]

Excellent.

[@ainekearney9041]

If there from an Anglo family in Ireland they ain't Irish.

[@jennyaskswhy]

"Cromwell's family was of Irish decent, now that would be an interesting project!" Darn right it would. Almost makes me want to become a historian. Pity I haven't the slightest chance of becoming university educated.

[@camt9967]

Don't need a University education, Jenny. Just passion....like Cromwell? Go for it. I'll be waiting to read your book :)

[@saoirsehaslonglegs2313]

@@camt9967 me too

[@saraharold3670]

Never too late

[@jaxzyz1565]

Huh

[@bebebj137]

Just another heretical version by a modernist. I’ve learned a lot from people like him. I learned it is all about feeling”s and not truth

[@camt9967]

No, you've learned about your own bias.

[@bebebj137]

@@camt9967 Haven't we all?

[@alayneperrott9693]

Read McCulloch's biography of Cromwell. Almost painfully full of documented details with a huge section of footnotes.

[@jaxzyz1565]

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