In this talk, delivered on 22 November 2021, Tim Healey created a vibrant portrait of Christmas in a turbulent age, describing Lords of Misrule, Twelfth Night revels, wassails, Boar’s Head feasts, frost fairs on the frozen Thames – and the Puritan ban on Christmas itself.
On 7 December 2020 following the AGM Simon Fowler and Sylvia Levi told us about some of the food and drink historically linked to the Christmas period.