The Split Grey Goose Feather

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England (map)

Dated: 1646 - 1649

A feather may seem a very unimportant thing. However, at one time people used them to write with, to fill duvets and pillows and, on one occasion, the life of a king may even have depended on a simple, grey, goose feather!

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8th August 2008

Split Grey Goose Feather
An animated film of the Split Grey Goose Feather made by Melissa Smalls at a summer school run by Suffolk Anglia Ruskin University

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Name: Joe K	4th December 2008
really interesting and gud

Name: Dan	2nd November 2008
I liked this and wondered if it happened - my dad dresses up to fight civil war battles and im intrested in this civil war.

Name: Zinnia Marniel	7th July 2007
i like it!! even in just the opening part!!

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