Hey friends, today we are going to dip into one of my favorite TudorCon sessions from this past year.

It's all about Christmas and Yuletide in the Tudor world, featuring Sarah Pixley-Papandria from H.Croft Hall, actually.

Sarah walked us through the real festive season that the Tudors knew, from Advent, all the way through to 12th night.

Think mummers turning up at your door, a lord of misrule, stirring up chaos, wassail bowls making the rounds, and 12 straight days when work was literally tied up with greenery.

This is also the perfect warm up for my Yuleuletide with the Tudors Digital Advent calendar,

which starts on Monday, December 1st.

Every day from December 1st through 12th night, you will get a short, bite-sized piece of

Tudor Christmas.

Plus, new for this year, there are fun activities every day that you can do at home as well

to keep that Tudor festive feeling going. If you loved hearing about mumming and wassailing

and St. Stephen's alms, Christmas mischief and the bean in the pudding, Yuletide walks you through

all of it day by day. The link to join is in the description or up here somewhere as well.

All right, my friends, settle in and enjoy Sarah's tour of Tudor Marymaking and then grab your spot for Yuletide with the Tudors so we can all celebrate together from December 1st all the way through to Epiphany.

All right, I really hope you enjoy Sarah's talk. I love

this topic. Have fun.

So I just wanted to show one of the many Christmas cards we have in our age craft collection.

This is from the 1920s, so it's not terribly tutor. But it's still pretty cool. And we're going to talk a little bit about what they would

have called the Yule Tide, the Christ Tide, 12th Tide, Christmas Tide, Yule, et cetera. They had a number

of different names for it. And a lot of that comes from the history of sort of how they saw Christmas,

what they did for Christmas. October, in my opinion, is actually a really fabulous time to

talk about this particular topic. Because for the tutors and for this period, this was their

time for dressing up in costumes, performing door-to-door ritual, hanging out with friends,

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