Christmas at Chartwell with Churchill
An extract from Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm by Katherine Carter. The magic of Christmas at Chartwell was its constancy….
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How the Georgians Celebrated Christmas – by Penelope J. Corfield
In The Georgians, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life – politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and…
Dickensian London in A Muppet Christmas Carol – Lee Jackson
Tourists have reimagined and reinvented the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Dickens’s London for more than 150 years. Take, for example, A Muppet Christmas…
Fairytale of Rothenburg – Marek Kohn
Marek Kohn, the author of The Stories Old Towns Tell, describes the Christmas market in the medieval German town of Rothenburg and reveals a…
The Origins of Christmas Carols
In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical music canon at a moment when we can access all…
Christmas in London Under Cromwell
The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century…
Christmas in Medieval England
In this extract from Going to Church in Medieval England, author Nicholas Orme discusses the customs, feasts and ceremonies that occurred in church during…
A Jane Austen Christmas
The month of December sees festivities held across the globe, but in 1775 a family in Steventon, England were celebrating for an entirely different…