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
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.
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.
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. 🎄
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.
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.
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 🍊
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 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.
'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.
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.
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
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.
Love the illustrations. ❤
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
Thank you.. what a great presentation of all our traditions. Merry Christmas
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. 🎄
Excellent documentary. From Spain, ❤ Merry Christmas-Feliz Navidad ❤
So love this definitely subscribing ❤
😇 THANKS LIAM DALE. OUTSTANDING ! LOVED THIS BEAUTIFUL INFORMATION !! HAPPY CHRISTMAS 💯💐🌲🎄🎆🎇🎊⭐🌟🌠!!! FROM, U.K. (2023).
Always a fan of everything you make Mr Liam Dale. Happy holidays from Florida in the USA😁
This was very informative and interesting where our foods and traditions come from. Thank you!🌲
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
19th December 1843.
Merry Christmas Mr Scrooge.
Ba Humbug!
Splendid rendition of Christmas , thankyou . And a merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family
Well we are back to not being able to afford postage again😢
Thoroughly enjoyable documentary. Thank you Liam. Merry Christmas to you and your family xx
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.
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.
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'm glad I hung in here. This ended up being good!!! ❤❤❤❤
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 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.
Merry Christmas Liam and family☃
AMEN 🙏
Humans had candles and worshipped trees long before Christianity.❤
Just wondering? Back in Victorian days were children given wine or spirits to drink?
Probably
Many of the " traditions " of that time were actually of German origins and brought to the UK by Prince Albert.
'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 don't understand the connection between Christmas and ghosts
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
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.
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