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Sixteenth-Century Tennis Was A Dangerous Sport Played With Balls Covered In Wool
In 1570, a Frenchman was arrested for smuggling clandestine correspondence between France and England. A passing comment in ...
England’s largest medieval hospital is unearthed inside a SINKHOLE in huge breakthrough – and no one knew it was there
A ROAD in the heart of York gave way to a sinkhole and exposed a vital part of the city’s past. Archaeologists have found the ...
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England’s Oldest Known Cheese Guide Warns: Don’t Eat Dog Cheese - Gizmodo
England’s Oldest Known Cheese Guide Warns: Don’t Eat Dog Cheese A newly transcribed book about cheese from the 1580s offers advice on everything from when to eat your meal to what kinds of ...
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Rare medieval manuscript virtually unwrapped to reveal hidden details | CNN - CNN International
“The way it was reused tells us about archival practices in 16th-century England. It’s a piece of history in its own right.” Hiding in plain sight ...
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Inside the Costumes of 'Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light'
That includes Damian Lewis as the uxoricidal monarch and Mark Rylance as Cromwell, the humble son of a blacksmith who defied 16th-century England’s rigid social strata to become one of the most ...