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Voices from the 14th century

xcuse the smell, the mud on my boots and the straw in my hair. I’m just in from a trip to the 14th century and I’m tired, cold and when I’ve had a cup of tea I’m having a shower. Plodding back home along the Fosse Way it took some head scratching to find my own house; I knew it was hereabouts but even with the newish Norman church opposite as landmark it took a while

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