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Henry VIII’s Lord Chancellor Thomas More is one of the most famous – or infamous – figures in English history. Worshipped as a saint, detested as a torturer, admired as a revolutionary, condemned as dogmatic. So is he a saintly scholar or the stubborn zealot famously portrayed in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall? Join leading historian Joanne Paul to hear the story of the man who opposed Henry’s break from Rome, was executed in the Tower yet dominated England in the first half of the 16th century. 

‘Paul Schofield, Hilary Mantel step aside, Joanne Paul’s fastidious biography restores More’s ideas and work to their full range of colour.’ – Helen Castor