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  2. Christmas cracker - Wikipedia

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    Christmas crackers are also associated with Knut's parties, held in Sweden at the end of the Christmas season. Author and historian John Julius Norwich (Viscount Norwich) was known for sending his family and friends a Christmas Cracker each year which was a kind of expanded Christmas card of anecdotes, trivia and witticisms collected from ...

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    The BBC reported that the first-known mince-pie recipe dates back to an 1830s-era English cookbook. By the mid-17th century, people reportedly began associating the small pies with Christmas. At ...

  4. 9 Christmas traditions in England that probably confuse ... - AOL

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    Pantomime, a campy, family comedy show, is a British Christmas tradition. Gideon Mendel/Corbis/Getty Images. One of the more confusing British holiday traditions (for Americans at least) ...

  5. 7 British Christmas Traditions That Are Simply Smashing - AOL

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    1. The Holiday Season Doesn’t Start Until the Christmas Adverts Do. In some countries, the holiday season kicks off on advent Sunday and for many Americans, it begins as soon as the last slice ...

  6. Tom Smith (confectioner) - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Smith (18 October 1823 – 13 March 1869) was a British baker and confectioner who is traditionally described as the inventor of the Christmas cracker, in 1847. [1] [2] Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). [3] In 1830, the 7 year-old Tom Smith began work in a baker and ornamental confectioners shop in London.

  7. Smoking bishop - Wikipedia

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    Smoking bishop is a type of mulled wine, punch, or wassail, especially popular in Victorian England at Christmas time, and it is mentioned in Dickens' 1843 story A Christmas Carol. [ 1 ] Smoking bishop was made from port , red wine , lemons or Seville oranges , sugar, and spices such as cloves .

  8. Christmas traditions - Wikipedia

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    Neapolitan presepio at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The practice of putting up special decorations at Christmas has a long history. In the 15th century, it was recorded that in London, it was the custom at Christmas for every house and all the parish churches to be "decked with holm, ivy, bays, and whatsoever the season of the year afforded to be green". [4]

  9. What traditions does the royal family have for Christmas? - AOL

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    The British royal family is just like any other family in some ways, especially when it comes to celebrating Christmas.. During the Christmas season, the royals participate in many traditions that ...

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