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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 ...
King George V started the Royal Christmas Message as a radio broadcast in 1932, and it has remained an annual tradition ever since. In 1957, Queen Elizabeth II moved to the broadcast to television
WPA Pool /GETTY IMAGES. King George V delivered the first holiday address over the radio in 1932, a tradition that Queen Elizabeth II continued until her death (she began televising her speech in ...
Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas. Although now known as a Christmas gift-bringer , and normally considered to be synonymous with American culture 's Santa Claus which is now known worldwide, he was originally part of an unrelated and much older English folkloric tradition.
The Yule log is recorded in the folklore archives of much of England, but particularly in collections covering the West Country and the North Country. [13] For example, in his section regarding "Christmas Observances", J. B. Partridge recorded then-current (1914) Christmas customs in Yorkshire, Britain involving the Yule log as related by "Mrs. Day, Minchinhampton (Gloucestershire), a native ...
The tradition of Star boys (sometimes even with Judas Iscariot), singing and acting about Christmas, Saint Stephen and Epiphany, has traditionally been performed from St. Stephen's Day until Epiphany. Today they are only to be seen bringing up the rear together with bridesmaids and elves as a part of the Lucia procession on 13 December ...
Some families do ugly sweaters, but tradition dictates that the family attends a black-tie dinner on Christmas Eve, where (at least in prior years), according to Popsugar, the Queen's favorite ...
Christmas and Easter are the periods of highest annual church attendance. A 2010 survey by Lifeway Christian Resources found that six in ten Americans attend church services during this time. [2] In the United Kingdom, the Church of England reported an estimated attendance of 2.5 million people at Christmas services in 2015. [3]