• cybersandwich@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I read that story in a book about the history of England: English history made brief, irreverent, and pleasurable.

    The letter was from the 1800s I believe so maybe we can cut him some slack for not really knowing.

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      9 months ago

      Ah right yeah fair enough! I thought you meant it happened in the past 15 years or something!