Christmas Corner

Over the years I’ve written a ton of posts on a festive theme, which have all proved to be very popular with you lot – in fact, it’s become a bit of a seasonal tradition round these parts (indeed, one of my long-time readers reckons I should actually write a book on the subject! I might. One day). There are so many of these Christmas posts now that I figured it was about time I put them all in one place for easy access. So if you’re feeling Christmassy and fancy a good read, click on any of the links below to find out more…

• Dreaming of a White Christmas? – Snow Facts (2009)
• The Little Ice Age and London’s Frost Fairs (2009)
• Christmas Superstitions (2009)
• The Sun Stands Still: the Winter Solstice and other Midwinter Festivals (2009)
• You Better Watch Out!: A Brief History of Santa Claus (2009)
• Twelfth Night, or What You Will (2010)
• How to have a very merry green Christmas (2010)
• A 17th Century Christmas Miscellany (2010)
• A Victorian Christmas Miscellany (2010)
• A Wartime Christmas Miscellany (2010)
• Festive Felonies (2011)
• Mulled Wine: Mulling it over (2011)
• The Solstice Fire (2011)
• Christmas in London: The Geffrye Museum (2012)
• Christmas in London: The Shoreditch Angel (2012)
• Christmas in London: The Natural History Museum (2012)
• Christmas in London: The Trafalgar Square Tree (2012)
• Stir-Up Sunday (2013)
• Charles Dickens and the Story of ‘A Christmas Carol’ (2013)
• Post Early For Christmas… (2014)
• Christmas in London: The Oxford Street Lights (2014)
• World War One: A Home Front Christmas Miscellany (2014)
• Christmas on Film: ‘Making Christmas Crackers’ (1910) (2014)
• Christmas on Film: ‘Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost’ (1901) (2014)
• Christmas on Film: ‘Christmas Under Fire’ (1941) (2014)
• Christmas on Film: ‘Santa Claus’ (1898) (2014)
• Christmas on Film: ‘New Year Greeting’ (1949) (2014)
• Christmas on Film: ‘Lonely Lightship’s Christmas (1922)’ (2015)
• Vintage Christmas Puddings: A Fourth Helping (2015)
• Under The Mistletoe… (2015)
• The Red, Red Robin… (2015)
• Christmas in London: The First Trafalgar Square Tree (1947) (2015)
• Christmas on Film: ‘A Christmas Carol’ (1914) (2015)
• Merry Christmas to you all! (2015)
• Christmas on Film: ‘Christmas Greeting’ (1946) (2016)
• Christmas on Film: ‘The Mistletoe Bough’ (1904) (2016)
• Post early for Christmas – with some canine help! (2017)
• Christmas in London: A 17th Century Update (2017)
• Christmas on Film: ‘The Insects’ Christmas’ (1913) (2017)
• Christmas in London: Lighting the Darkness on Oxford Street (2017)
• Christmas in London: Snow Joke! (2017)
• A Thoroughly Modern Santa? (2017)
• Happy 2018! (2018)
• Post Early For Christmas… in Christmas!? (2018)
• Beware the Yule Cat! (2018)
• Football at Christmas: Sam Bartram in the Fog (2018)
• Please Mr Postman: A Brief History of Christmas Cards (2018)
• A Thoroughly Modern Santa Returns! (2018)
• Merry Christmas to one and all! (2018)
• Happy 2019! (2019)
• Post Early For Christmas… Again! (2019)
• Playlisting: Hail Santa! (2019)
• Bringing in the Mistletoe (1959) (2019)
• Santa Claus, the Pub Crawl (2019)
• When Santa Visited Christmas (2019)
• Christmas in Space: The ISS Edition (2019)
• Weird and Wonderful: Santa on the Beach (2019)
• Another Kind Of Mind Advent Calendar 2020: December 1st  (2020)
• Another Kind Of Mind Advent Calendar 2020: December 2nd (2020)
• Another Kind Of Mind Advent Calendar 2020: December 3rd (2020)
• Another Kind Of Mind Advent Calendar 2020: December 4th (2020)
• Another Kind Of Mind Advent Calendar 2020: December 5th (2020)
• Another Kind Of Mind Advent Calendar 2021: December 1st (2021)
• Vintage Advertising: Christmas Shopping (2021)
• Another Kind Of Mind Advent Calendar 2021: December 2nd (2021)
• Another Kind Of Mind Advent Calendar 2021: December 3rd (2021)
• Another Kind Of Mind Advent Calendar 2021: December 4th (2021)

(I’ll also be adding links to any future Christmas posts as they’re published, so watch out for those too…)