Born in 1500 into the highest circles of the English aristocracy and then lifted as high in the Church, Reginald Pole’s life was spent steering a perilous course through the storm of the European Reformation. After a brilliant scholarly career in Italy, he chose refuge there from Henry VIII’s regime and its anti-papal policies. His […]

Institute of Historical Research Seminar Using the rich seam of local records (detailed churchwardens’ accounts, vestry minutes and surviving wills), this paper tells the tale of religious divisions in the London suburban parish of St Botolph’s Aldgate. The changes to parish worship and finance during the reign of Edward VI were almost entirely reversed during […]