by CCash | Jan 12, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes, Uncategorized
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by CCash | Apr 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Text on this page is a rough transcript from our interview (unless otherwise noted). Details under the images are related to the picture or artifact and are not reflective of any comments by the guest. Paper Was Made From Linen In a word—rags. If the paper was meant...
by CCash | Apr 14, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes, Uncategorized
About Hall’s Croft Hall’s Croft goes back a little ways, it has some documentary evidence sparsely. It’s been built onto and other things that make it hard to source, but we do know John and Susanna Shakespeare moved there around 1613, living there only 3 years,...
by CCash | Mar 31, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes, Uncategorized
Sides of Different Dice in the 16th Century Historic Dice Games feature dice that look predominantly like the dice we have today. The most common shape of die in Shakespeare’s lifetime was exactly the kind of dice we have today, the exception being they...
by CCash | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the Episode: Here’s the Chaucer quote from the Wife of Bath’s tale. The quote is taken from F. N. Robinson, ed.,The Riverside Chaucer, 3rd ed. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988), 256. “My felawe mordred is this same nyght, And in this carte he lith...
by CCash | Sep 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
When we think of unicorns, we most often think of the mythical creature roaming forests in Europe or if you are from the UK, you’ll likely make a connection with the famous nursery rhyme about the Lion and the Unicorn. In addition to being the national animal for...
