Because I work in technology, people are often surprised that I spend 2 weeks a year living in the 16th Century.
The first episode of a new Podcast by Jonathan Deamer and I explains why.
What is Kentwell Hall? Were the Tudors a high technology society? What does it mean to be human? Why do both Jonathan and I have a long file of interesting subjects we never get round to blogging about?
All this and more in Episode 1 of Crazy theories.txt.
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BTW, it being Easter weekend, you can visit Festive Easter at Kentwell as a tourist, and see what all the fuss is about. It’s in easy day trip train range of London if you get up early, otherwise you’ll probably need to drive to Suffolk - there’s lots of other tourist things nearby too, if you want to make more than one day of it. It was a major centre of the wool trade, back in the day.
Links for this episode:
- ‘Upstairs, downstairs — BBC News article about Kentwell
- ‘History ‘alive’ in stately homes’— Today programme audio (which you hear a bit of in this episode)
- ‘Tim Moore: Yesterday’s man’— Telegraph article that Francis mentions
- Pewter actually melts at 170 degrees C (not 70 degrees C) you can tell, as you can keep hot drinks in pewter cups
- Coney and rabbit: what’s the difference?