The history of Christmas: everything you wanted to know

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🗓️ 20 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Did Cromwell ban mince pies? And why does Santa wear red? George Goodwin responds to listener questions and internet search queries on festive history Did Cromwell ban mince pies? When did people first give Christmas presents? And why does Santa wear red? George Goodwin, historian and author of Christmas Traditions: A Celebration of Festive Lore, responds to listener questions and internet search queries about the history of the festive period. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.6	I'm Ellie Cawthorne.
0:56.4	It's time to get out your mince pies and mulled wine
0:59.2	because today we've got a special festive edition
1:02.1	of our Everything You Wanted to Know series
1:04.2	on the History of Christmas.
1:06.7	I put your questions on everything
1:08.6	from Boxing Day and Carols to Santa's Redcoat to the historian and author George Goodwin, whose books include Christmas Traditions, A Celebration of Festive Law, which was published by the British Library last year.
1:22.9	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
1:33.2	Instagram. And we've also got some of the most searched for terms from search engines online.
1:39.6	Let's start with a question from LeVie Marie, who was one of our Twitter followers, who asked,
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