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Joking aside, the history of Christmas is genuinely quite fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#
by LeoPanthera 4y ago
Joking aside, the history of Christmas is genuinely quite fascinating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#History
- dingaling 4y agoParticularly in Scotland, where celebrating Christmas was technically illegal until 1958
- smcl 4y agoIt was made a bank holiday in Scotland in 1871. So I imagine if it was "technically illegal" it would've been some antiquated law along the lines of those "you can kill a welshman within the city limits on a Sunday" ones that would not have been enforced for centuries.