Much Ado About Wenlock, Lavenham Village Hall, Lavenham, Suffolk by Hugh Homan

Lavenham Village Hall, Lavenham, Suffolk: You probably didn't know that the modern Olympic movement started in Much Wenlock in deepest Shropshire. I have it on the word of writer Rachael Savage that a certain Victorian doctor, William Penny Brookes, devised a mixture of athletics and country crafts (even knitting for the ladies) to keep his villagers fit and well and out of the alehouse. Read the full review

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