‘Man is wolf to man’ in the Tudor Court as personal desires intersect with politics & religion. The king needs a male heir & so wants to annul his twenty year marriage in order to marry Anne Boleyn. The lowly-born Thomas Cromwell is given the task of making this possible, despite opposition from the papacy & the political establishment. How...
William Morris was a frequent visitor to Manchester, and the only Morris & Co shop outside London was located on Albert Square. His now famous dictum: Do not have anything in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful, was first heard in Manchester. And the first of his explicitly socialist lectures Art,...
As Thomas Cromwell rises to greatness, Henry V111’s marriage to Anne Boleyn sours. The machinations that follow, engulf them all.Michael Tunnicliffe will give illustrated lectures on the history and theology of the period and Creina Mansfield will offer a literary analysis of Hilary Mantel’s Booker-prize winning novels.
