Tuesday, June 23, 2020

History Today July 2020

REPORTS of my subscription to History Today coming to an end were clearly greatly exaggerated as issue 7 of volume 70 arrived through the letterbox last week.
It concentrates on the famous meeting between Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France in June 1520.
This is usually known as The Field Of The Cloth Of Gold, although in History Today it is rendered less smoothly as The Field Of Cloth Of Gold.
(The) Magazine
Rather more interesting to me, because I knew next-to-nothing about it, is an article detailing how children were often able to vote at British general elections.
It only happened in small numbers, and apparently never affected who won a seat in the Commons, but made for amusing reading.

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