Learning the lessons of history
Four hundred and fifty years ago today, Thomas Cranmer, then the Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury was burnt at the stake for heresy. He served under three English Monarchs, the last of them Queen Mary Tutor. In 1556 she ordered, as the Roman Catholic Queen, that he be executed on a burning pyre. Many consider Cranmer [...]
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