Posted by on December 17, 2019 5:26 am
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In the 17th century, Christmas was banned in England and its territories for 17 years. Shops were forced to stay open, public drinking and festive feasting were illegal, mince pies were seized, even putting up foliage as decoration was forbidden. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out why a parliament full of Protestant puritans would make celebrating Christmas illegal

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