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Tudor Children

By Nicholas Orme

Yale University Press, £20, hardback, 288 pages

Don't know your nine men's morris from your blind man's buff? Learning about such games, and the ways in which young people spent their leisure time, are just some of the joys of this wide-ranging exploration of childhood in Tudor England. From infancy to

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