This Christmas, we gave you our Christmas videos, and the very next day we added some blogs as well.
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December 19, 2018
Christmas is associated with so many different kinds of music, but for many, there is one work that towers above all others – Handel’s Mess
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December 17, 2018
There’s no doubt that music has an enormous impact on what makes the festive season festive. But what are the characteristics which make this music Christmassy?
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December 13, 2018
It is a common myth that Cromwell abolished Christmas, but it is based on a misunderstanding. It was the devoutly religious and parliamentarian party, working through the elected parliament, which during the 1640s clamped down on the celebration of Christmas and other saints' days.
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December 12, 2018
Christmas tradition depicts Santa Claus flying through the night sky on Christmas Eve in his parcel-laden sleigh pulled by a herd of reindeer. Now, neither humans nor reindeer – nor indeed sleighs
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December 5, 2018
The word Christmas came into English shortly after the Norman conquest, and grew out of the festival then referred to as ‘Christ’s mass’: the Christian tradition of taking holy communion/
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December 5, 2018
Hoole, a suburb a mile north of Chester Cross, was lit up for the nineteenth year in a row on Saturday 24th November.