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Thursday, 2 February, 2017
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The celebrations that followed a great Tory triumph in Canterbury at the 1841 general election led to the creation of an annual cricket festival and to what is now the oldest amateur dramatic society in the world, as Alistair Lexden explained in the attached book review published in Parliament’s House Magazine on February 3.

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