Thomas More at the Tower – Conscience & Memory

Thomas More’s Tower story: what his cell, trial, and memorial have come to symbolize.

11/27/2025

10 min read

Conscience and Crown

More’s refusal and fate center a debate still alive: conscience under pressure of state.

Visiting

Locate the memorial and read the inscriptions slowly.
Consider how space lends ceremony to remembrance.

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More memorial

Bottom Line

The Tower’s stones hold contradictory loyalties—and the courage to name them.

Om forfatteren

Humanist Historian

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