2011-12:

Keeping Christmas Well

—Until (at least) January 6th

by Artemesia D'ECCA

Pdf eBook Edition

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An Authoritative Question-and-Answer Guide to the Season of Christmas

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A lively, illustrated question-and-answer eBook with everything you need to know about the Season and of Christmas.

 

In Pdf eBook format: r.r.p. £8.30 (excl. VAT)
550 illustrated Pdf pages (700 illustrations) sized and optimized to match eReaders (Kindle etc.)
ISBN 978-1-908420-022 —an e-Stocking Filler.
A PHAETON Guide.

[Please note that this is eBook edition is a greatly extended version of the previous eBook edition with ISBN 9780956105523, which is now superceded.]

"…very attractive and highly marketable seasonable title…"—Books Ireland.

Essential Facts about Christmas:

Christmas and War.

The forgotten Seasons of Christmas—the 40 days, the 20 days, the 12 (or is it 13?) days.
What is a “day” at Christmas ?

Christmas and Religion—when and where was Christmas banned?

Christmas and the Movies.

Christmas and the Industrial Revolution—a force
that almost killed it.

Christmas food and drink—from Brawn to
the Tom and Jerry.

Who really wrote “The Night Before Christmas”, and when ?

When and why did we start celebrating Christmas Day on the 25th of December ?

"… Scrooge was better than his word… it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well… May that be truly said of us, and all of us !"
— A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.

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