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Clare McHugh

London, Long Island

Vice President, The Sturgis Group and Contributor at Freelance

Novelist, journalist, historian. US/UK dual citizen, often living in the past. My new novel, The Romanov Brides, is out now. 🎗️

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Articles

  • As ‘Wolf Hall’ returns, questions about Thomas Cromwell remain

    3 weeks ago | pressherald.com | Clare McHugh

    Enchanted by the new episodes of “Wolf Hall” now showing on PBS? Wondering how much is true? These four books provide detailed, and dramatic, documentation concerning the life of Henry VIII’s chief minister and machinations at the Tudor court where he thrived — until his precipitous fall.

  • As ‘Wolf Hall’ returns, questions about Thomas Cromwell remain

    3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Clare McHugh

    As ‘Wolf Hall’ returns, questions about Thomas Cromwell remain (washingtonpost.com) As ‘Wolf Hall’ returns, questions about Thomas Cromwell remain By Clare McHugh 2025033015000600 Enchanted by the new episodes of "Wolf Hall" now showing on PBS? Wondering how much is true?

  • Rags-to-riches hero or villainous torturer? The truth about Henry VIII's scheming right-hand man Thomas Cromwell

    1 month ago | flipboard.com | Clare McHugh

    9 top new movies and shows to stream this weekend on Netflix, Prime Video and more (March 21-23)Spring is here, sprinkling new shows and movies to watch this weekend on Netflix, Prime Video and more of the best streaming services. The "Severance" …

  • Rags-to-riches hero or villainous torturer? The truth about Henry VIII's scheming right-hand man Thomas Cromwell

    1 month ago | bbc.com | Clare McHugh

    Rags-to-riches hero or villainous torturer? The truth about Henry VIII's scheming right-hand man Thomas CromwellNational Portrait GalleryWith her award-winning Wolf Hall series of books, novelist Hilary Mantel made sympathetic a figure long considered a historical bad guy. But did she also 'sidestep crucial matters'? Nearly 500 years after his death, Thomas Cromwell lives again, reborn in the popular imagination thanks to novelist Hilary Mantel, and her Wolf Hall trilogy.

  • Review | Geraldine Brooks delivers a rich account of marriage and mourning

    2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Clare McHugh

    When, without warning, Geraldine Brooks’s husband, Tony Horwitz, collapsed on a Chevy Chase sidewalk and then died at a D.C. hospital, age 60, she felt cheated in numerous ways. She was not with him, so strangers comforted him in his last moments. She herself was alone when she got the news, delivered by an impatient resident on duty in the ER.

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Clare McHugh
Clare McHugh @Claremch
31 Mar 25

This is it, my last word on Thomas Cromwell--read the bold historians whose work undergird, and sometimes contradict, Mantel's fictional portrait. https://t.co/kWkIQCcURU

Clare McHugh
Clare McHugh @Claremch
30 Mar 25

The courage on display here is striking. Hamas out! Opinion | Why I and thousands of my fellow Gazans say Hamas’s tyranny must end - The Washington Post https://t.co/1VKE59y8TX

Clare McHugh
Clare McHugh @Claremch
21 Mar 25

Now a TV hero, once a bare-knuckled Tudor in-fighter, Cromwell makes for a great profile, my piece here: https://t.co/kkvsBjYraP