Today is the Feast of the Annunciation, known as Lady Day and not to be confused with Ladies Day (a race meeting), Mothers' Day, Mothering Sunday, or International Women's Day. Dear me.
It used to be a Quarter Day, for the payment of rents, which I always thought must have taken some of the gloss off the proceedings.
It is also the anniversary of William Wilberforce's first vctory in his long battle to abolish slavery. The Slave Trade was abolished on this day in 1807 althuogh slavery itself remained legal for another quarter of a century.
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