2nd June, 2020 – Drummer Hodge
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest/ Uncoffined – just as found...
Hello from Suffolk. Here's five minutes of civilised calm recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem: Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy.
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A Month in the Country by JL Carr
On this day: 2 June, 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, remarkably similar in its ceremonial to that of King Edgar, which took place on 3 June, 973, almost a thousand years earlier.
On this day: 2 June, 1840, Thomas Hardy, poet and novelist was born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset
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