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Title: Charming series
Review: This is a charming series that settles into a single English village and uses its history, as viewed through written records and archaeological mini-digs conducted by local townsfolk, to explore the whole sweep of English history from pre-Roman days to the 20th century. The village sits in the middle part of the country, which was influenced by both Anglo-Saxon and Danish linguistic traditions - I suspect this was not accidental - and the explanation of how this affects place names in the area is worth the price of the set by itself. The older history is not nearly as dry as you might expect, in part because the descendants of many people listed in medieval records as working on local estates, dying of plague, etc. still live in the village and put a human face on their ancestors.
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