Day: 28 July 2018

The Untimely Death of Thomas Cromwell

One of the many irrational beheadings Henry VIII ordered as an older king was the execution of his loyal and indispensably helpful minister Thomas Cromwell. King Henry’s deteriorating brain function might have been the result of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a condition only recently diagnosed by medical science, but it may have also been due to… Read more The Untimely Death of Thomas Cromwell