Thomas Cromwell, the Goldsmiths’ Company and the Mint

Speaker: Timothy Schroder

This lecture looks at the king and his world through a rather special lens of the institutions concerned with gold and silver, the Mint, the jewel house and the Goldsmiths’ Company At the heart of all this sat Thomas Cromwell, who we all know now through Hilary Mantel’s novels, but who is shown in a rather different light in this lecture.

Timothy Schroder is a Historian of gold and silver