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Father Christmas was banned by the Puritans under Cromwell in the mid-17th century. He went ‘underground’ along with Minced Pies, Christmas games and the like. Occasionally secret publishers would print Broadsheets (a sort of newspaper) with a verse about ‘Old Christmas’. He became the personification of everything the British people held dear about Christmas.
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Posted on December 20, 2011 via The Stuarts with 69 notes
Source: christmasarchives.com
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More reasons for me to not like Oliver Cromwell.
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Early modern European freakery, and sexual politics, lesbian history and pop culture. Or whatsoever else I fancy.
The title is taken from one of my favourite 17thC homoerotic poems, by Katherine Philips: 'To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship'.
