Happy New Year 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 a New Year’s Day history.

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New Year’s Resolutions

• Humorous and Cheeky- New Year’s Resolutions from Punch in 1889
• A Medieval Man’s New Year’s Resolutions 

New Year’s Traditions

• A New Year’s Recipe from Old Prussia
• A New Year’s Day in19th Century New York
• Hogmanay or Hog-ma-nay – A Scottish New Year’s Eve 
• New Year, New You: Early Modern Style 
• New Year’s Day in Paris in the 1800s  
• French New Year’s Etiquette Visits in the Late 1800s 

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

You can find more Christmas History posts HERE