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OPINION: Voices from festive past occupy Christmas present

Keith Skipper says the voices from Christmas past still ring true today ....

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For clarity this Christmas simply read, reflect and remember

Keith Skipper
Published:
4:56 PM December 20, 2020

Norfolk s wintry delights form an enchanting Christmas card to stand above a crackling fire at armchair reading time
- Credit: Trevor Allen
As memory’s fire crackles, and we prepare to hang up stockings of hope no matter how many darn holes have been added since last time, I hear a host of rich local voices calling us through diaries, letters and books spanning well over 500 years.
Margaret Paston wrote many of the celebrated family epistles opening a window on the 15th century during one of the most turbulent periods in English history. Festivities in 1459 were put on hold after the death of Sir John Fastolf, an influential friend of the family who gave Caister Castle as his home address. ....

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