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Pulled to a muddy death

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William Shakespeare died on Monday, July 6, 1579. He’d gone to wash in the River Avon, where he tumbled and drowned. He was, as Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski explain, not the famous playwright, but a Warwickshire shoemaker. William is one of many forgotten stories from Tudor England remembered in this accessible and important volume on accidental deaths. Based on extensive archival research, drawing on nearly 9,000 coroners’ inquest reports, …
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the-tls.com broke the news in on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
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