Christmas Traditions
Description
This file contains items relating to Christmas traditions, and includes two photocopies of the section on Christmas (including Christmas Eve, games, mumming, Christmas Day, carols, decorations, food, Christmas boxes and pantomime) from 'The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar', ed. R. Chambers (London: Chambers, [1869]), volume 2, pp. 733-765; Nora Coughlan's article on Christmas at sea in the 1890s, part photocopied and part extracted from 'Country Life' (7 December 1967), pp. 1462-1463; Ann Bixby Herold's article on Christmas in Unterbaltzheim, Southern Germany, extracted from 'The Lady' (7 December 1972), pp. 928-929; a photocopy of a typed extract from ms. notes (made ca. 1850) by Alexander Marwick on Christmas in the Orkneys; a photocopy of K. G. Gilstring's article on Yule logs, in Swedish, from an unidentified publication; G. Bernard Hughes's article on Peacock Feasts, extracted from 'Country Life' (23 December 1971), pp. 1776-1777; and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from 'The Lady' and the 'Westmorland Gazette' on Christmas feasts and festivities, Christmas trees and old Christmas traditions in the Lake District. File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Metadata
| Identifier | tqnxd36n |
| IRN | 410697 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/9/2/4 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/tqnxd36n |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Annual Festivals |
| Date | 1964-1972 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of photocopied and typed papers, magazine extracts and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings. |