I grew up with very German parents. Only 4 years were my fathers parents from Germany! I adored my Victorian Christmases!! I am 64 years old now and still hold dear my German Victorian Christmas as do my children and now grandchildren! Thank you for this documentary and the memories it brings back!!
It has been a life long dream to travel to England and celebrate Christmas. I would love to celebrate the holiday Victorian style. Our house was built in 1900. I'm trying to convince my husband to decorate in Victorian christmas decor, so very fitting for this house.
Same. We live in an old stone home, we just purchased this year. We decorated with the usual colored lights, which just feels wrong. I said next year I'd like white lights, candles, greenery etc. We'll see.
Our home was built in 1857 and we have the hand hewn beams showing inside. We always decorate in the Victorian style every year, but we use the clip on battery powered little candles on the tree. They’re actually quite pretty on the subdued flickering mode.
WOW! Great video, I never realized so many traditions came from that era! I live in Washington state and every year at the end of Nov. we have a Victorian Country Christmas at our State Fairgrounds. It's really cool. The folks that run it make the vendors dress up in that era of clothes and they go ALL out to make it as authentic as possible, but it's not JUST the vendors, EVERY employee must dress that way. Yes, I know what you're thinking, who keeps clothes like that just "laying around". They will provide it for FREE, just for that time...pretty cool if you ask me. Oh, I worked it with my father-in-law, that's how I know.
I love God I celebrate Christmas very, very big!! We decorate complete Victorian Christmas for the past 25 years now!! We love it and we love different adaptations of A Christmas Carol, our son made fun of this Christmas and said "Don't you guys ever get sick of these movies?? AH NO!! My neighbors are very impressed with my Victorian Christmas house and traditions. I watched this special before Christmas and now again during my 12 days of Christmas celebration, I have know intention of letting go of Christmas that quickly after of 5 weeks of prep. We go on to celebrate the full 12 days of Christmas in our own little ways. Anyway as I was saying I am watching this for the thrice time (once last year) and I love it!! IT is the best history lesson I ever had. You touched on everything that we hold near and dear to us throughout the Christmas season!!!! Thank you again for this it is very entertaining.
As soon as I saw the candles it brought back a bad memory. I was about 3 years' old in the 1950s. We had an artificial tree on the table and the candles were lit. My dad was reading the paper next to it. I saw the tree set on fire and pointed to it to dad who then rushed out with it into the street. Thankfully everything was ok after. He got some electric lights after that
Absolutely fantastic!!! I really enjoyed this. I know a lots of things and was surprised to learn others. Thank you so much what a wonderful presentation. MERRY CHRISTMAS. 🎄
When night was in the midst of her course and all things were in quiet silence Your Almighty WORD leapt down from heaven, O LORD. A holy Christmas to all.
You would think, being a British history channel, they would’ve gotten the history of the Christmas tree correct.They credited it being brought to Britain by King Albert when it was brought some 40 years earlier by his grandmother in law Queen Charlotte on her first Christmas at Windsor Castle in 1800.. I’m not sure if they did this to credit the Christmas tree to the Victorian era for the purpose of the video but rewriting history for the sake of a few more minutes on a UA-cam video is ridiculous.. if people want history, they need to get the correct history
Here in Germany, or at least in Bavaria, January 6th is Epiphany, celebrating the visit of the Wise Men to the baby Jesus. In German it's known as "Heilige Drei Könige" or "Three Holy Kings". It has its own set of fun traditions, but nothing as elaborate as Twelfth Night. Coincidentally, January 6th is also Russian Orthodox Christmas Eve, the 7th being their Christmas. I think that started when the Orthodox Church held on to the Julian calendar, refusing to adopt the more accurate Gregorian calendar.
We, who believe in the coming of Christ, should endeavour to make this our very best Christmas celebrating the Infant Christ Child, and pray for His Peace to come to this troubled world.
At my first Christmas in Germany, I got a tiny tabletop Christmas tree with mini candles. Unfortunately the little tree caught fire pretty quickly, but I doused it right away, without damage or injury. I never risked that again.
Here in amurica in the late 19th century into the twentieth, regular kids (I don’t know about the rich ones), would get oranges in their stockings because they were very special fruits to get, especially in winter. My mom, 1916, lived in Montana early in her young life, then Chicago, and she would put oranges in our stockings a couple of times, early in the ‘50’s and we couldn’t have cared less, except they were a pretty color :) LOL 🍊
1947 and 1962 had bumper snow. In the 1680s England had a mini ice age when the Thames river froze and they had Christmas fairs actually on the frozen river.
'Nicholas was taken for safe keeping... ' He was Stolen! Mira was doing quite nicely from pilgrimages, and a bunch of Italian merchants wanted in on that. So they took the remains by force. I was watching a very interesting Documentary about St Nick and his Coca Cola counterpart a few nights ago. there is no certainty that the remains (and there are bits scattered around in other places) are even Nicholas. There was a lot of appropriation of bits purporting to be saintly relics in those days. St James in Santiago isn't meant to be there, and there was a few in Britain that got 'moved for saftey' if that is the way you want to refer to it. Most of us would say Theft! And whoever believed the earth was Flat? That is left to a few looneys of the modern era.
I've seen it claimed that Rome's midwinter Saturnalia festival wasn't observed much beyond the City of Rome itself. And the date ranged for Saturnalia, suggested by documentary evidence, does not include December 25.
Perhaps not spirits, but probably hard cider, wine, and ale. But it wouldn’t have been unusual, as they drank those things all year. They didn’t suffer from the absurd virtue-signaling hypocritical attitudes about alcohol that many folks do today.
@@edmundooliver7584 You misunderstand. Yes, they used the greenery and Yule log like we use today’s Christmas trees-but they did not “worship” those things.
they had christmas trees before prince Albert, it was the picture of him and the queens children around a tree with boxes and candles that everybody wanted in their home.
These traditions were not brought by Prince Albert.. they were brought by his grandmother in law queen Charlotte. They credited the Christmas tree to Albert when it was The German queen who first decided instead of bringing in a bough of the tree, she would bring the whole tree into decorate this happened her first Christmas at Windsor Castle in 1800 almost 40 years before they credit Prince Albert with it
How would Victoria's customs before Albert be much different than after Albert? James VI/I's daughter Elizabeth married a German Elector. He daughter, Sophia, married another German Elector. Their son, George I married a German. George II married a German. George II's son Frederick, Prince of Wales, married a German and produced George III. III married a German as did his son the Duke of Kent. Kent married a German and produced Victoria. George I or II had the 1st Christmas tree in the UK, but without any mass media most people outside of the royal circle didn't know about it.
This video has a lot of falsehoods it credits Albert with bringing the Christmas tree to England when it happened 40 years earlier when Queen Charlotte decided to bring her German tradition of bringing in and decorating a tree bough and amped it up a notch and decided to bring in the whole tree.. this happened her very first Christmas at Windsor Castle in 1800..
Germany is the true Christmas homeland, origin of Christmas incent smokers, carvings, pyramids and nutcracker and Christmas toys: Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), creator of the modern Santa Claus in red robe: 1863 by Thomas Nast of Landau City, origin of Christmas eve gifts: Wittenberg city (Luther), origin of Christmas tree decorations (Lauscha city), origin of Advent wreath and Christmas advent calendar: Hamburg city (J.H. Wichern), modern glowing Christmas star: Herrnhut city... and some of the best Christmas markets in Europe (Dresden and Nuremberg).
Why do you think councils are against Christmas trees? It’s not because they think it’s tree worship. Because they are antiChrists, they want rid of them because of the word Christ in ‘Christmas trees’. Worship has to come from the heart and will, so what you worship in your heart is what you worship in truth. I worship Christ at Christmas, not the tree. We have to be very careful of the subtle manipulation of history to justify the eradication of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Whomever or whatever you, in your conscience worship, is whomever or whatever you actually worship. If in your heart you worship Christ, that is to whom your conscience is committed.
The Victorian Christmas story is not really my favorite Christmas story because it talks about ghost story an I don’t like ghost stories neither for Christmas or in general that includes any ghost stories in human history
One of the things I discovered, during my 14 years of independent research, was that Charles Dickens wasn't the original author of "A Christmas Carol." He only commercialized it and popularized it. I concluded that the original authors were Americans Mathew and Abby Whittier. In 1842, the year before the "Carol" was published by Dickens, Mathew wrote an essay urging Americans to celebrate Christmas more as the English did. The essay, entitled simply "Christmas," appears in the December 24, 1842 edition of the Portland "Transcript," and is signed "Poins." He wrote: In no country, perhaps, where Christianity bears sway, is the natal day of its illustrious Founder so little observed, as in ours. True, we all recognize its annual return, and by some sects it is observed with due solemnities; but we fall far short in this respect, when compared with other Christian nations. England, our mother-land, far exceeds us in outward manifestations of veneration for the day. Who that reads is not familiar with the universal joy and hilarity of the Christmas-days, in "merrie Old England?" It is an annual oasis in the monotonous frigidity of English life. It is the season of universal good feeling, when sundered ties are reunited--when new friendships are formed, and old ones strengthened. It is the season of charity. The doors of affluence are opened, by its power, to the children of penury, and the beggar subsists for many days upon his Christmas alms.
I grew up with very German parents. Only 4 years were my fathers parents from Germany! I adored my Victorian Christmases!! I am 64 years old now and still hold dear my German Victorian Christmas as do my children and now grandchildren! Thank you for this documentary and the memories it brings back!!
It has been a life long dream to travel to England and celebrate Christmas. I would love to celebrate the holiday Victorian style. Our house was built in 1900. I'm trying to convince my husband to decorate in Victorian christmas decor, so very fitting for this house.
I would too. A dream I've always had. 😊
Same. We live in an old stone home, we just purchased this year. We decorated with the usual colored lights, which just feels wrong. I said next year I'd like white lights, candles, greenery etc. We'll see.
Just not candles on the tree
You can get flickering LED candles
Our home was built in 1857 and we have the hand hewn beams showing inside. We always decorate in the Victorian style every year, but we use the clip on battery powered little candles on the tree. They’re actually quite pretty on the subdued flickering mode.
WOW! Great video, I never realized so many traditions came from that era! I live in Washington state and every year at the end of Nov. we have a Victorian Country Christmas at our State Fairgrounds. It's really cool. The folks that run it make the vendors dress up in that era of clothes and they go ALL out to make it as authentic as possible, but it's not JUST the vendors, EVERY employee must dress that way. Yes, I know what you're thinking, who keeps clothes like that just "laying around". They will provide it for FREE, just for that time...pretty cool if you ask me. Oh, I worked it with my father-in-law, that's how I know.
That’s sounds like a lot of fun. Hello from Texas
@@jessicabellair145 It IS lots of fun! Especially working it, you get to see a LOT of the "behind the scenes".
Greetings from the UK to our American cousins. ❤
😇 THANKS LIAM DALE. OUTSTANDING ! LOVED THIS BEAUTIFUL INFORMATION !! HAPPY CHRISTMAS 💯💐🌲🎄🎆🎇🎊⭐🌟🌠!!! FROM, U.K. (2023).
I’m early this year for decoration and baking as I work again on Christmas. This lovely victorian walkthrough is a motivating little jewel.
I love God I celebrate Christmas very, very big!! We decorate complete Victorian Christmas for the past 25 years now!! We love it and we love different adaptations of A Christmas Carol, our son made fun of this Christmas and said "Don't you guys ever get sick of these movies?? AH NO!! My neighbors are very impressed with my Victorian Christmas house and traditions. I watched this special before Christmas and now again during my 12 days of Christmas celebration, I have know intention of letting go of Christmas that quickly after of 5 weeks of prep. We go on to celebrate the full 12 days of Christmas in our own little ways. Anyway as I was saying I am watching this for the thrice time (once last year) and I love it!! IT is the best history lesson I ever had. You touched on everything that we hold near and dear to us throughout the Christmas season!!!! Thank you again for this it is very entertaining.
did you not listen it come from pagans worship, so GOD has nothing to do with christmas or trees,yule logs and so on.
I have similar feelings & actions at Christmas too, keep on keeping Christmas in your own, cherished way. God bless us, everyone.
I wish the 12 days of Christmas were still celebrated widely
Thank you.. what a great presentation of all our traditions. Merry Christmas
As soon as I saw the candles it brought back a bad memory. I was about 3 years' old in the 1950s. We had an artificial tree on the table and the candles were lit. My dad was reading the paper next to it. I saw the tree set on fire and pointed to it to dad who then rushed out with it into the street. Thankfully everything was ok after. He got some electric lights after that
Beautiful
Yes never put candles close to trees
Peace ❤ and Joy❤
🤣🤣🤣
@@brendarico715
"Close" to the tree? They were probably ON the tree! 😂
Absolutely fantastic!!! I really enjoyed this. I know a lots of things and was surprised to learn others. Thank you so much what a wonderful presentation. MERRY CHRISTMAS. 🎄
Thoroughly enjoyable documentary. Thank you Liam. Merry Christmas to you and your family xx
Excellent documentary. From Spain, ❤ Merry Christmas-Feliz Navidad ❤
Love the illustrations. ❤
Splendid rendition of Christmas , thankyou . And a merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family
When night was in the midst of her course and all things were in quiet silence Your Almighty WORD leapt down from heaven, O LORD. A holy Christmas to all.
Always a fan of everything you make Mr Liam Dale. Happy holidays from Florida in the USA😁
I'm glad I hung in here. This ended up being good!!! ❤❤❤❤
This was very informative and interesting where our foods and traditions come from. Thank you!🌲
You would think, being a British history channel, they would’ve gotten the history of the Christmas tree correct.They credited it being brought to Britain by King Albert when it was brought some 40 years earlier by his grandmother in law Queen Charlotte on her first Christmas at Windsor Castle in 1800.. I’m not sure if they did this to credit the Christmas tree to the Victorian era for the purpose of the video but rewriting history for the sake of a few more minutes on a UA-cam video is ridiculous.. if people want history, they need to get the correct history
Liam’s voice is perfect for this story/video-positively exudes Christmas, just like St. Nicholas!
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
19th December 1843.
Merry Christmas Mr Scrooge.
Ba Humbug!
Here in Germany, or at least in Bavaria, January 6th is Epiphany, celebrating the visit of the Wise Men to the baby Jesus. In German it's known as "Heilige Drei Könige" or "Three Holy Kings". It has its own set of fun traditions, but nothing as elaborate as Twelfth Night.
Coincidentally, January 6th is also Russian Orthodox Christmas Eve, the 7th being their Christmas. I think that started when the Orthodox Church held on to the Julian calendar, refusing to adopt the more accurate Gregorian calendar.
You are talking about Russian, Georgian and Serbian orthodox churches. For all other Orthodox it's on the 25th.
@Fotina18 Oh, thanks!
@@shibolinemress8913 ❤
Here in the US, January 6th is now a day that’s remembered for a group of citizens storming the Capitol 🤦🏻♀️
We, who believe in the coming of Christ, should endeavour to make this our very best Christmas celebrating the Infant Christ Child, and pray for His Peace to come to this troubled world.
I remember the Christmas markets and decorations when I lived in Germany. Its a memory I cherish
So love this definitely subscribing ❤
Merry Christmas Liam and family☃
What a wonderful vlog. Thanks for a very informative look into the past !
Victorian era Christmas would be nice to be apart of .
In Australia we have pavlova my favourite Christmas desert ever I was a kid ❤❤🎉🎉
At my first Christmas in Germany, I got a tiny tabletop Christmas tree with mini candles. Unfortunately the little tree caught fire pretty quickly, but I doused it right away, without damage or injury. I never risked that again.
What a lovely video and well narrated so interesting enjoyed it all
Well we are back to not being able to afford postage again😢
A.victorian.christmas
Surely.the.greatest.christmas
Of.all
No we never put candle,s on them now. Just starting think about christmas 2024 . I wish you a merry xmas love fron uk
Here in amurica in the late 19th century into the twentieth, regular kids (I don’t know about the rich ones), would get oranges in their stockings because they were very special fruits to get, especially in winter. My mom, 1916, lived in Montana early in her young life, then Chicago, and she would put oranges in our stockings a couple of times, early in the ‘50’s and we couldn’t have cared less, except they were a pretty color :) LOL 🍊
I remember the oranges and nuts and hard candies. We loved all of it because it was generally the only time of year getting those items. 🎄😊🎀
I'm 53 now and every Christmas we got orange, mixed nuts and candy canes in our stocking, passed the tradition down to my kids and now my grandkids
1947 and 1962 had bumper snow. In the 1680s England had a mini ice age when the Thames river froze and they had Christmas fairs actually on the frozen river.
Merry Christmas
Very charming and cozy 😊
🫂🎄🫂 Thank you sharing....Chicago, IL.
Queen Charlotte brought the custom of the Christmas tree from Germany.
The Mistletoe part was so funny...
Poor overburdened Little Donkey in the picture 😔
'Nicholas was taken for safe keeping... ' He was Stolen! Mira was doing quite nicely from pilgrimages, and a bunch of Italian merchants wanted in on that. So they took the remains by force. I was watching a very interesting Documentary about St Nick and his Coca Cola counterpart a few nights ago. there is no certainty that the remains (and there are bits scattered around in other places) are even Nicholas.
There was a lot of appropriation of bits purporting to be saintly relics in those days. St James in Santiago isn't meant to be there, and there was a few in Britain that got 'moved for saftey' if that is the way you want to refer to it. Most of us would say Theft!
And whoever believed the earth was Flat? That is left to a few looneys of the modern era.
😂👍
AMEN 🙏
I've seen it claimed that Rome's midwinter Saturnalia festival wasn't observed much beyond the City of Rome itself. And the date ranged for Saturnalia, suggested by documentary evidence, does not include December 25.
Just wondering? Back in Victorian days were children given wine or spirits to drink?
Probably
Perhaps not spirits, but probably hard cider, wine, and ale. But it wouldn’t have been unusual, as they drank those things all year. They didn’t suffer from the absurd virtue-signaling hypocritical attitudes about alcohol that many folks do today.
Humans had candles and worshipped trees long before Christianity.❤
it's pagan, like yule logs.
To be clear, no one ever “worshipped” the tree, either before or after Christianity arrived.
@@byteme0000 pagan did evergreens, yule log ,garland it's idolatry worshiping false idols.
@@edmundooliver7584 You misunderstand. Yes, they used the greenery and Yule log like we use today’s Christmas trees-but they did not “worship” those things.
@@byteme0000 they worshipped nature and you are doing the same thing just like halloween it has pagan traditions,
Many of the " traditions " of that time were actually of German origins and brought to the UK by Prince Albert.
they had christmas trees before prince Albert, it was the picture of him and the queens children around a tree with boxes and candles that everybody wanted in their home.
These traditions were not brought by Prince Albert.. they were brought by his grandmother in law queen Charlotte. They credited the Christmas tree to Albert when it was The German queen who first decided instead of bringing in a bough of the tree, she would bring the whole tree into decorate this happened her first Christmas at Windsor Castle in 1800 almost 40 years before they credit Prince Albert with it
@@edmundooliver7584 exactly his grandmother in law Queen Charlotte was credited with the very first Christmas tree in Windsor Castle in 1800.
@@Hallucid. yes, in britain, germans did it for years nordic countries and celts pagans used every greens, yule logs, trees' garlands in the home.
How would Victoria's customs before Albert be much different than after Albert? James VI/I's daughter Elizabeth married a German Elector. He daughter, Sophia, married another German Elector. Their son, George I married a German. George II married a German. George II's son Frederick, Prince of Wales, married a German and produced George III. III married a German as did his son the Duke of Kent. Kent married a German and produced Victoria.
George I or II had the 1st Christmas tree in the UK, but without any mass media most people outside of the royal circle didn't know about it.
This video has a lot of falsehoods it credits Albert with bringing the Christmas tree to England when it happened 40 years earlier when Queen Charlotte decided to bring her German tradition of bringing in and decorating a tree bough and amped it up a notch and decided to bring in the whole tree.. this happened her very first Christmas at Windsor Castle in 1800..
I don't understand the connection between Christmas and ghosts
Germany is the true Christmas homeland, origin of Christmas incent smokers, carvings, pyramids and nutcracker and Christmas toys: Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), creator of the modern Santa Claus in red robe: 1863 by Thomas Nast of Landau City, origin of Christmas eve gifts: Wittenberg city (Luther), origin of Christmas tree decorations (Lauscha city), origin of Advent wreath and Christmas advent calendar: Hamburg city (J.H. Wichern), modern glowing Christmas star: Herrnhut city... and some of the best Christmas markets in Europe (Dresden and Nuremberg).
hi for some it's going to be a Victorian Christmas now no food heating it was alright uf you were rich but you were poor foget it
Everytime I try to watch something there seems to be a negative story in the comments.
Too many ads 😢 where your Xmas 🎄 spirit 👎 UA-cam is getting more n more greedy it’s unbelievable 😂 Netflix again a guess we’ll done ✅
From proud British Empire to islamic den!
Why do you think councils are against Christmas trees? It’s not because they think it’s tree worship. Because they are antiChrists, they want rid of them because of the word Christ in ‘Christmas trees’. Worship has to come from the heart and will, so what you worship in your heart is what you worship in truth. I worship Christ at Christmas, not the tree. We have to be very careful of the subtle manipulation of history to justify the eradication of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Whomever or whatever you, in your conscience worship, is whomever or whatever you actually worship. If in your heart you worship Christ, that is to whom your conscience is committed.
yes, it's still pagan no matter what you feel.
@@edmundooliver7584
I don’t worship trees any more than you would worship a house plant.
Ummm, Jesus birthday was September. Just enjoy the season!
@@alinedavis213 Jesus never celebrated his birthday.
@@jazzman1626 pagans put evergreens in their home with yule logs, wreaths, garlands, plants so it's the same.
😂😂😂❤❤❤u
The Victorian Christmas story is not really my favorite Christmas story because it talks about ghost story an I don’t like ghost stories neither for Christmas or in general that includes any ghost stories in human history
One of the things I discovered, during my 14 years of independent research, was that Charles Dickens wasn't the original author of "A Christmas Carol." He only commercialized it and popularized it. I concluded that the original authors were Americans Mathew and Abby Whittier. In 1842, the year before the "Carol" was published by Dickens, Mathew wrote an essay urging Americans to celebrate Christmas more as the English did. The essay, entitled simply "Christmas," appears in the December 24, 1842 edition of the Portland "Transcript," and is signed "Poins." He wrote:
In no country, perhaps, where Christianity bears sway, is the natal day of its illustrious Founder so little observed, as in ours. True, we all recognize its annual return, and by some sects it is observed with due solemnities; but we fall far short in this respect, when compared with other Christian nations. England, our mother-land, far exceeds us in outward manifestations of veneration for the day. Who that reads is not familiar with the universal joy and hilarity of the Christmas-days, in "merrie Old England?" It is an annual oasis in the monotonous frigidity of English life. It is the season of universal good feeling, when sundered ties are reunited--when new friendships are formed, and old ones strengthened. It is the season of charity. The doors of affluence are opened, by its power, to the children of penury, and the beggar subsists for many days upon his Christmas alms.
No it was Charles sickens defo
Victorian era Christmas would be nice to be apart of .
In Australia we have pavlova my favourite Christmas desert ever I was a kid ❤❤🎉🎉