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June

For my seasonal reading in June*, Steve Roud, in The English Year, describes our misunderstanding of the traditional celebrations around midsummer. He says that weโ€™ve been seduced by Shakespeareโ€™s A Midsummerโ€™s Nightโ€™s Dream into thinking Midsummer is when fairies and sprites … Continue reading

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