Features
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US Election Special: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns of the 2016 Race to the White House (1/3)
By Dafydd Townley In just ten months time the United States electorate will vote on who will be the 45th President of the United States. The first primaries start next month in New Hampshire with the party debates between the… Continue reading
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Medieval Christmas Celebrations
by Dr Ruth Salter Feasting at King Arthur’s court, British Library MS Royal 20 D. iv. f.1r. It was Christmas at Camelot, and there was the king with his leading lords and all his best soldiers, the famous company of… Continue reading
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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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