The Book of Christmas

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<p>- What is the significance of holly at Christmas? - When should you make your figgy pudding? - Why was the Old Lad's Passing Bell rung on Christmas Eve? - And who was Good King Wenceslas?</p><p>Did you know that, long before turkey arrived on our shores, it was traditional to serve a roasted wild boar's head at Christmas? Or that our Christmases were once so cold that Frost Fairs were held on the River Thames?</p><p>Christmas Day was first celebrated on 25 December in the fourth century CE. But when should our Christmas decorations come down - Twelfth Day, Twelfth Night ... or Candlemas? And why?</p><p>Packed with fascinating facts about ancient religious customs and traditional feasts, instructions for Victorian parlour games and the stories behind our favourite carols,<i>The Book of Christmas</i>is a captivating volume about our Christmas past.</p>

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Jane Struthers is the author of over twenty books, including<i>Red Sky at Night: The Book of Lost Countryside Wisdom</i>,<i>Beside the Seaside</i>and<i>Literary Britain and Ireland</i>. She shares her 17th-century cotttage and garden in East Sussex with her husband and two cats.

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