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Rationing at Christmas – 1940s

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Despite rationing and the absence of relatives in the armed forces, people did their best to enjoy their wartime Christmas,

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20th Century 

Christmas on the Western Front – 1914

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On Christmas Day 1914 the guns of the Western Front fell silent. This eyewitness account comes from an anonymous British

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20th Century 

A nurse’s Christmas on the Western Front – 1914

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Nurse Katherine Luard recalls the first Christmas of the first world war, on the Western Front, 1914.

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Normans to Tudors 

William the Conqueror crowned King of England – 1066

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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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