The Reformation put the economic relationship between 16th-century London and Antwerp under strain. How did England cope with this?

A lecture by Dr Ian Archer, Keble College Oxford 9 January 2019

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London was crucially dependent on continental Europe for its economic resilience in the mid-sixteenth century, and Sir Thomas Gresham’s fortune piggy-backed off the special relationship with Antwerp. But the Reformation put the relationship under real strain. This wasn’t a sixteenth-century Brexit (the division was within Christendom), but it posed similar challenges. How did England cope?

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