Rationing at Christmas – 1940s
Despite rationing and the absence of relatives in the armed forces, people did their best to enjoy their wartime Christmas,
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Christmas on the Western Front – 1914
On Christmas Day 1914 the guns of the Western Front fell silent. This eyewitness account comes from an anonymous British
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Nurse Katherine Luard recalls the first Christmas of the first world war, on the Western Front, 1914.
Read moreWilliam the Conqueror crowned King of England – 1066
William the Conqueror was crowned King of England on Christmas Day 1066. Orderic Vitalis wrote the nearest we have to a contemporary
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