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What was life really like for the ordinary people of Somerset in the 17th Century? Join Dr Mark Hailwood as he looks back 400 years to discover the diverse experiences of every day life in the county.✨Booking required. Please note that this is an in person talk. Tickets £10.
Mark is working on a project that uses witness statements from court records to reconstruct everyday life in seventeenth-century Somerset villages from the testimony of the ordinary women and men who actually lived in them.
Mark is a first generation academic from a working class background. He holds the position of Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Bristol and is a social historian with a particular interest in the everyday lives of ordinary men and women in England, during the period 1500 – 1700.
✨Book your place here: https://swheritage.org.uk/events/working-class-life-in-17th-century-somerset/
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Chilkwell Street, BA6 8DB Glastonbury, United Kingdom, Glastonbury, United Kingdom
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