In the entertainment we watch on TV, we are used to there being a sliding scale between fiction and non-fiction.  ‘Fictional’ stories are often ‘based on true events’ and documentaries can be ‘dramatised’ to make them more interesting.

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An interesting discovery was made recently in an attic in a very old house in Guilford, England.  It is a metal box, like a biscuit tin with a hinged lid, containing scores of small pieces of paper, each with a short message in tiny writing. (more…)