We return once again for Literary Christmas, a series where we explore how Christmas and the holiday season is represented in literature. While you do have some authors who explore the holidays very explicitly, like Dickens in A Christmas Carol and Louisa May Alcott in […]

I think we all (maybe sadly?) have accepted that advertising is a part of modern life. Companies, marketers, and brands continuously dream up new ways to get us to buy things, sign up for subscriptions, and believe their slogans. And the holiday season is no […]

The Nutcracker remains a beloved holiday tradition. For many of us, it is the first ballet that we see. And Tchaikovsky’s music is often one of our first introductions to classical music. And nutcrackers themselves are immensely popular, finding their way into many a living […]

One of my favourite holiday series is back again: Ornament of the Day! While this might seem like a silly series to some, it emphasises the personal side of history. Christmas and the holiday season in general tend to have an incredibly personal element when […]

Welcome to a brand new Blogmas series- Unique Christmas! In this series, we are going to look at different and unique ways that the holiday season has been celebrated across time and space. While everything becomes normalised for us, there are still some truly unique […]