I spent Easter Sunday watching “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.” Although Henry VIII remains more talked about than Caligula, Pol Pot, and even Hitler, there still are events, documents ...

And he did a couple of pet portraits of Henry’s servants ... I’m at peace with period drama [costuming], because I love art, and I love working things out. …We’re not reinventing anything ...

But more entertaining was the ritual innocent hostage-taking of the festival. Henry VIII tried to ban Hocktide (Photo via Getty) A perculiar Hocktide custom, on ‘Hock Monday’ women would capture men ...

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