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Category: Blogmas 2022

The History of St. Stephen’s Day

The History of St. Stephen’s Day

And the week of final series’ post continues here for Blogmas 2022! We’ve been looking at several different saints’ days that play a prominent role in the holiday season for the Saints’ Days series. Firstly, we looked at St. Andrew’s Day (30 November) to start […]

Literary Christmas: LM Montgomery

Literary Christmas: LM Montgomery

This will be the final instalment in our Literary Christmas series for Blogmas 2022! It seems impossible that we already find ourselves at December 21st but Christmas Day is nearly upon us. We opened the series with Charles Dickens, the man behind A Christmas Carol. […]

Carol of the Day: The First Noel

Carol of the Day: The First Noel

We are back today with the last instalment of our Carol of the Day series for this Blogmas! (Starting on Boxing Day, I will be shifting to year-end, wrap-up posts.) We’ve covered “Joy to the World”, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”, and “God Rest Ye […]

Royal Christmas In Belgium

Royal Christmas In Belgium

So far in this Royal Christmas series, we’ve explored how the Danish Royal Family celebrates holidays throughout December and how the Spanish Royal Family focuses on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Given that the Danish royals are Protestant and the Spanish royals are Catholic, it […]

Style File Friday: Red and Green Tiaras

Style File Friday: Red and Green Tiaras

For last week’s Style File Friday, we looked at some of our favourite red and green fashion history moments. This week we are going big- much bigger. Unsurprisingly, my tiara and jewellery posts are some of the most popular here on An Historian About Town. So, we […]