🎧 The Dissolution of the Monasteries
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Ordered by Henry VIII and carried out by Thomas Cromwell, the dissolution of the monasteries was the greatest land re-distribution in England since the Norman Conquest. Between 1536 and 1540, 800 religious houses were dissolved leading to nothing less than the wholesale destruction of monasticism. Suzannah and Matthew explore the background to the events and their far-reaching consequences - on pregnant women, the poor and the libraries of England.
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