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It's all Me, Me, Me! in Doctor Who's The Woman Who Lived but what of Clara's fate?

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"Reputable population statistics puts the black population of 16th/17th century England in the high hundreds/low thousands"

Of whom virtually all would be in major port towns such as London, Bristol, Plymouth..........as the hanging was supposedly at Tyburn then having black people in the crowd is totally feasible. What probably isn't feasible is the apparent rural environment of Tyburn as depicted in the program - it was probably more built up with wooden houses

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