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Theatre review: Emlyn Williams ‘The Wind of Heaven’
A.T. critiques three plays that have an angel or saint in them. Set in a Welsh village, ‘The Wind of Heaven’ is about a boy named Gwyn who works a miracle in a village devastated by cholera. He brings back to life a dead soldier and new hope to…
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A Medieval Manor House
In this article from a regular children’s column in the Sunday Times called “The Girls and Boys Club”, a standard and idealised description of medieval manor houses is provided. According to the author, a fifteenth-century manor house was a…