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Tom Chaffin

Tom Chaffin’s latest book is Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle and the Voyage That Changed the World. He can be reached at tomchaffin.com.

Evolutionary Road

Evolutionary Road

Darwin’s great theory was years in the making

by Tom Chaffin | Monday, February 28, 2022
His Life Spoke Volumes

His Life Spoke Volumes

The man behind the great Enlightenment encyclopedia

by Tom Chaffin | Monday, March 04, 2019

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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