What are the iconic features of Christmas today?
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What are the iconic features of Christmas today?
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1700 – 180018th century
1800 – 190019th century
1900 – 200020th century
What questions
does this raise about the 18th
century?
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What was Christmas like in the 18th century?
Obviously this photo isn’t from
the 18 th century! But it shows you an
18 th century tradition!!!!
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• Christmas was far less focused on those features we know today
• In fact it was often less religious and more focused on winter traditions
• Folk traditions!
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Mumming
• Mummers plays were often performed in the 18th century in the countryside
• The play was often performed in lots of places in one evening, e.g. different pubs
• It gave farm labourers the chance to let their hair down and have fun at Christmas time
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Mummer’s Plays
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We need the following characters
• Father Christmas• Saint George• Dragon• Bonaparte• Doctor• Jack Vinney• Niddy Noddy• Belzebub• Saucy Jack
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In comes I, old Father Christmas…
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Saint George, a man of courage bold…
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In comes I, the fiery Dragon….
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FIGHT!!!!!!!!
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..and just to prove it here’s his head
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Bonaparte…
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FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!
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Doctors and rebirth….
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Where you find out…
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…..then it all gets a bit more random
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Niddy Noddy, big head, little body…
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The broad…
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Saucy Jack
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Belzebub
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Then the Wassail Bowl!
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Was this a FUN Christmas?
Is this the kind of Christmas you would like?
Why do you think people have brought these plays back and
perform them now?