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Hello and welcome to the History Extrapodcast from BBC History Medicine. Britain's best

selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Corpon. It's time to get out your mince pies and mulled wine, because today

we've got a special festive edition of our Everything You Wanted to Know series on

the history of Christmas. I put your questions on everything from Boxing Day and Carol's

to Santa's Red Coat to the historian and author George Goodwin, whose books include Christmas

traditions a celebration of festive lore, which was published by the British Library last

year.

So thanks very much for joining me. We've got lots of questions on the history of Christmas

from our readers on social media who've sent in questions via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

and we've also got some of the most searched for terms from search engines online. Let's

start with a question from Levina Rhee, who was one of our Twitter followers, who asked

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