•  *~*~*~*~*~* Christmas Through the Centuries*~*~*~*~*~*
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• *~*~*~*~*~*1800*~*~*~*~*~*
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• *~*~*~*~*~*1600*~*~*~*~*~*
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• *~*~*~*~*~*General Medieval*~*~*~*~*~*
• *~*~*~*~*~*1000 and earlier*~*~*~*~*~*
• You can find an index to all the Regency Christmas tradition posts HERE
• You can find more Christmas History posts HERE

Merry Christmas and Many Blessings to you and yours! 
I hope you are enjoying a wonderful time with those you love this holiday season. Grab a cup of cocoa, put your feet up and enjoy a little bit of the season’s history with a look at Christmas through the centuries.

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 *~*~*~*~*~* Christmas Through the Centuries*~*~*~*~*~*

• A surprisingly recent Buckingham Palace tradition
• 800 Years of Christmas in England

*~*~*~*~*~*1900*~*~*~*~*~*

• Christmas 1914 
• Soldier’s life saved by Princess Mary’s Christmas Gift
• Christmas Under Fire 

*~*~*~*~*~*1800*~*~*~*~*~*

• Christmas 1819
• A 19th Century Austrian Christmas
• Christmas week in Madrid
• Regency Christmas celebrations
• Christmas Eve in Early 19th Century Pennsylvania
• East India Company Christmas gifts
• Christmas at Ladysmith 1899 
• Celebrating Christmas in a Fur Trade fort (1800’s) 
• A VICTORIAN LADY’S CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE
• Santa Claus enters the fray on the side of the Union
• Christmas 1857 in Calcutta

*~*~*~*~*~*1700*~*~*~*~*~*

• Beware drinking at Christmas!
• 12 Scenes of Christmas
• A Georgian (Non)Christmas?
• A Colonial Christmas, Feast and Customs 
• 1730 Christmas poem

*~*~*~*~*~*1600*~*~*~*~*~*

• ‘Christmas Imprisoned’: the ‘popular’ assault on the festive season
• Christmas under the Puritans 
• An Early Modern Christmas Party
• Fantastic Thoresby V: a late seventeenth-century Christmas  
• ‘At Christmas we banquet, the rich with the poor’: Christmas Dinner in Tudor & Stuart England

*~*~*~*~*~*1500*~*~*~*~*~*

•  CHRISTMAS: ITALIAN RENAISSANCE STYLE
• Celebrating the Twelve Days of Christmas in Early Tudor England  

*~*~*~*~*~*General Medieval*~*~*~*~*~*

• The Christmas relics that came to medieval England
• Tales from the Hundred Years’ War: Christmas in the Count’s Court
• The Story of Christmas: Medieval Extended Edition
• Medieval Manuscripts: Illustrating the Nativity Scene at the end of the 15th century
• Ye Olde Christmas Traditions
• Yule at Sheen Palace, 1497
• Young King Henry Looked Out On the Feast of… Christmas
• IF IT’S CHRISTMAS IT MUST BE CHINON… the festive season itinerary for Henry II

*~*~*~*~*~*1000 and earlier*~*~*~*~*~*

• Christmas 1065
• A Tale of Two Yules
•  An Anglo Saxon Christmas 

You can find an index to all the Regency Christmas tradition posts HERE

You can find more Christmas History posts HERE

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