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The Birth of John the Baptist

The Birth of John the Baptist

When I was teaching history we used to go every year with 200 11-12 year olds to a Tudor manor house in Suffolk called Kentwell. It was in the parish of Long Melford and for a month in the summer they reconstructed a particular year of Tudor history. We, both staff and students, had to dress up as peasants before we left Bromley on the longish coach journey and, once there, we mingled with the gentry, all speaking 16th century English, as we went around the house and ground