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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Quaker shopkeepers, Christmas 1660
Quaker shopkeepers in Portsmouth opened their shops on Christmas Day, 1660. This was just a few months after the Restoration, and it seems that feelings in the town were running high. Perhaps, after years of Christmas being a proscribed celebration, … Continue reading
Christmas is banned – oh no it’s not!
Many people will have heard that ‘Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas’, or more generally that ‘the Puritans’ banned Christmas. Cue steretypical image of sour-faced person in tall black hat. But, like many stories, it does have some basis in fact. In … Continue reading
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