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" We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong. "

Terry Jones

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" The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things. "

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" I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India. "