Holbein’s Hidden Gem: Rediscovering Thomas Cromwell’s Lost Book.

Dr Owen Emmerson & Kate McCaffrey

In a discovery branded the most exciting Thomas Cromwell finding ‘in a generation’, historians Kate McCaffrey and Dr Owen Emmerson chart their discovery of a Book of Hours that once belonged to Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII’s Chief Minister. Hidden in plain sight, and recognised by Hever Castle’s curator Alison Palmer, the book is one of the only extant objects captured in a Tudor portrait, for it feature’s in Hans Holbein the Younger’s celebrated painting of Cromwell.

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“The most exciting Thomas Cromwell discovery in a generation – if not more.”

— Dr Tracy Borman.