Christmas Special
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Inventing the English Christmas
Professor Anne Lawrence-Mathers Did the Anglo-Saxons have a midwinter festival before the coming of Christianity and Christmas? Most of what is documented comes from the work of the Venerable Bede (c672-735). His references to pagan practices suggest distaste for what… Continue reading
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Christmas under Cromwell
by Dr Rachel Foxley In modern Britain – in spite of what some of the papers sometimes say – you would have to look quite hard to find anyone who made no concessions at all to Christmas. Many people without… Continue reading
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Christmas 2015: A Pre-Modern Christmas
This year the Department of History’s seasonal theme is ‘A Pre-Modern Christmas’. The halls have been deced in the department and we have a caption competition for our students running at the moment. The competiton is based on Pieter Bruegel… Continue reading
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what will the weather be like in 2015? ❄❄❄ A medieval method of forecasting from the Department of History at the University of Reading’s Seasonal Blog Series ❄❄❄ By Dr Anne Mathers Lawrence ❄❄❄ Modern weather forecasters may hesitate to… Continue reading
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