Origins
Today's traditional British Christmas comes from the Victorian period. It was a time for the family to be together, sing carols and play games. However, during this celebration social class distinctions were specially highlighted. This Victorian Christmas is very well portrayed by Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol (1843).
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The traditional Christmas dinner consists of roast turkey or ham, vegetables and special desserts such as pudding, mince pies and Yule log in Great Britain and fruit cake and pumpkin pie in America.
In Great Britain people start cooking the meal very early because the traditional Christmas meal, turkey, takes a long time to cook. During this meal, in pairs, people pull crackers and from which they get a small present, a paper hat and a joke.
The Christmas tree tradition comes from Germany and it became popular in Britain in 1840 because of the marriage of Queen Victoria with a German Prince.
The first Christmas card was designed by John Callcott Horsley in 1843. This is how it looked like:
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Callcott, J. (1843). The first Christmas card [image]. Retreived from:
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For more information have a look at BBC Christmas History
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