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Dec 2014
20m 26s

147 – The Twelve Days of Christmas

Jamie Jeffers
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This year for our Christmas special, I thought I would give you an idea of what Christmas was like for some of the people in Middle Ages Britain. Now, Christmas in the middle ages was quite different from our modern experience in many ways. And like with everything else, it would have varied from location […]

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