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Britain’s famous brass bands were invented by soldiers returning from the Napoleonic Wars, Cambridge historian Eamonn O'Keeffe has discovered 🎺 It’s widely believed that brass bands originated with coal miners and other industrial communities in northern England and Wales between the 1830s and the 1850s. O’Keeffe’s new evidence rewrites this history. He found that the earliest bands are older and more widespread than we’ve been led to believe. The earliest named civilian band identified, the Co