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Letter: Letters: Time's arrows

Published 3 July 1993

From ERIC FRANKLIN

Rees states that ‘the English led the rest of the world’ with the longbow. I
believe, though I don’t know where to find the evidence, that the invention
was Welsh.

Eric Franklin
Pirton, Hertfordshire

Issue no. 1880 published 3 July 1993

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