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 look at Christmas traditions through history.

Don’t forget, you can find an index to all the Regency Christmas tradition posts HERE

*~*~*~*~*~* Unusual Christmas Traditions*~*~*~*~*~* 

• The Yule Cat of Iceland: A Different Kind of Christmas Tradition
• 19 Christmas Eve Traditions You Probably Didn’t Know About

 *~*~*~*~*~* Christmas Pantomime*~*~*~*~*~*

• A Christmas Pantomime

 *~*~*~*~*~* Christmas Carols*~*~*~*~*~*

• Christmas Carols of Yore
• The Liturgical Drama of Christmas
• A Christmas Carol from 1816
• Regency Bicentennial: First Performance of Stille Nacht
• The Premiere of Silent Night
• Oldest copy of Silent Night found in Vienna
• A Garland of Christmas Carols
• Christmas Carols: Why do we keep singing them?  
• Traditional English Christmas Carols: The Coventry Carol and The Holly and the Ivy
• A Victorian Christmas Carol
• The reformation of Christmas carols? 

 *~*~*~*~*~* Christmas Trees*~*~*~*~*~*

• Flowering fruit tree branches as Christmas trees
• How to Make the Most of a Victorian Christmas Tree
• Queen Charlotte’s Christmas Tree
• Stories of the Christmas Tree in France  
• Christmas Tree Folktales and Legends  
• History and Tradition of Christmas Ornaments 
• The History of Christmas Trees  
• German Christmas tree, sugar ornaments and garden board base
• The First Christmas Tree 

 *~*~*~*~*~* Christmas Decorations*~*~*~*~*~*

• Victorian Advice on DIY Christmas Decorations
• Decorating 19th Century London with Holly
• 18th & 19th century Christmas decorating with holly and mistletoe
• Victorian Christmas Decorating, featuring Frosted Branches and Gilded Acorns
• Regency Era Christmas Evergreen Decorations
• An Illuminating History…and Christmas Lights
• Kissing under the mistletoe at the North Pole in 1830 
• Mistletoe Madness, 1796  
• The Christmas Rose
• Mistletoe Lore and Legend 

*~*~*~*~*~* Christmas Cards*~*~*~*~*~*

• Some of the Earliest Christmas Cards Were Morbid and Creepy
• The First Commercial Christmas Card
• Have a Creepy Little Christmas with these Unsettling Victorian Cards
• Christmas Cards and the Loss of Christmas
• World’s first Christmas card goes on display at Dickens Museum

*~*~*~*~*~* Christmas Charity*~*~*~*~*~*

• Christmas appeal from the Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union

*~*~*~*~*~* Christmas Fun and Games*~*~*~*~*~*

• Behind the Scenes of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’
• Christmas storytelling
• Adalbert Stifter’s Rock Crystal (1846)~ A Christmas Story
• Charades – a Christmas game to make a long evening short
• A Christmas entertainment
• Having a ball – Christmas in Calcutta

*~*~*~*~*~* Christmas Gifts*~*~*~*~*~*

• Christmas Gift Ideas from the 19th Century
• Christmas Shopping in 1833
• Ye Olde Ask the Past Gift Guide 
• A VICTORIAN LADY’S CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE
• Christmas Shopping: A Victorian Thought on It

 *~*~*~*~*~* Boxing Day*~*~*~*~*~*

• St Stephen’s revisited.
• Boxing Day is not Black Friday: Unwrapping the Tradition

 *~*~*~*~*~* Santa Claus*~*~*~*~*~*

• Are These the Bones of Santa Claus?
• St. Nicholas Day and the Ancient Tradition of the boy-Bishop
• The Man Behind the Story of Father Christmas/Santa Claus 
• Santa Claus’s coming to Britain   

The Worst Jobs in History, Christmas Edition

You can find more Christmas History posts HERE

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