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Open at The Cromwell Museum is Cromwell’s Classroom, an exhibition exploring the story of Huntingdon’s Grammar School, founded 1565, and the home of the museum itself.
Running until 10 October, it shows what schooling was like in the 1600s, bringing together rare documents, classroom objects and insights into the education of one of Britain’s most controversial figures, Oliver Cromwell.
Visitors will encounter the stories of celebrated diarist Samuel Pepys and priest and theologian Dr Thomas Beard who served as schoolmaster between 1605 and 1625, and whose Puritan views were a possible influence on Cromwell’s later religious convictions and political actions.
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