3rd June, 2020 – An English Light
9:45 on a fine June night,/ I watch from the window and write and write...
Hello from Suffolk. Here's five minutes of civilised calm recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem: An English Light by Felix Dennis.
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William – The Dictator, by Richmal Crompton
On this day: 3 June, 1989 – the Tiananmen Square massacre begins. It will see up to four thousand pro-democracy activists shot, bayoneted and deliberately crushed to death beneath the treads of tanks
On this day: 3 June, 1162 – Thomas a Becket is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury. His murder eight years later, by men who believed they were following the will of the king, would make Thomas a saint whose veneration would last for centuries.
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