Blogmas: 21 Days of Christmas History Posts

The Articles

Christmas Cards: Circa 1900
Queen Elizabeth II’s First Christmas Speech
Christmas Nostalgia: all I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth
Christmas Cards: 1905 – 1910
Hampton Court Palace: Baubles, Gifts and Posh Nosh this Christmas
6 December: the Feast Day of Saint Nicholas
A Forces Christmas Card: 1917
King George V: the First Christmas Speech
Postcards: Jenny Nyström’s Christmas Art
The Hyde Park Serpentine Christmas Swim
The Science Museum: What’s in Their Shop this Christmas?
Queen of the Forest: the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree
The National Archives: a Selection for On and Under Your Tree this Christmas
The Christmas Coronation of William the Conqueror
Christmas Cards: Season’s Greetings from Edwardian New Zealand
In the News: Lost Bletchley Park Christmas Card Found
Christmas 1950: Stolen the Stone of Scone
George I’s Christmas Pudding?
The Victorian Christmas (originally posted in 2017)
Christmas Day Tudor Style
Skipped Blogmas instead updated @HistorianRuby: Social Media links…
The Royals: Christmases Past
Christmas Cards: the Royal Selection
25 December 1840, The London Evening Standard: a Report (originally posted in 2017)

I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of posting daily but normal service will now resume! Above is a directory (of sorts) of the articles I published during Blogmas and below is a compendium of all the images used.

The Images

Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree

Photo Credit: https://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/event/40241636-christmas-tree-at-trafalgar-square

King Haakon VII returning to Norway on HMS Norfolk, June 1945

William the Conqueror (Credit: Westminster-Abbey.org)

A Christmas card dated to 1900

French card dated to 1910

French Christmas Postcard dated 1907

Christmas Card circa 1900

Montgomerie Christmas card 1901, from the Robin Wilson family archive

Christmas card dated to 1905 from Queensland, Australia

Christmas card dated 1907

Christmas Card from Queensland, Australia, 1910

Books – take your pick

Lots of sweet treats for stocking fillers or Christmas Eve boxes! (Various prices)

Spice bags to make your favourite winter tipple – mulled wine, whiskey toddy and ginger beer (£5.99)

Mulled wine and spiced cider sachets (£1.50)

Cranberry and orange liqueur fruitcake

Royal coat of arms tree decoration (£50.00)

Royal Breakfast Tea – a perfect cuppa for Christmas morning £9.99)

Royal Palace fine bone china bauble (£55.00)

Dried fruits and spices in a gilded heart are super festive

Hampton Court Palace Christmas Card

B for Boleyn – Anne Boleyn’s iconic necklace recreated as a Christmas decoration (£12.99)

Twin pack of Tudor Rose baubles (£17.99)

Henry VIII and his six wives (£55.00) tree decorations

After dinner mints for the Tudor historian (£4.50)

Cherry Brandy, Elderberry and Port liqueur and Ginger Liqueur – will these tempt you after Christmas dinner?

Royal Palace luxury ceramic bauble (£45.00)

Chocolate and orange fruitcake

The Palace Rose collection has decorations, accessories and foodstuffs

Christmas Pudding with Brandy and Port (£10.99)

A Tudor Christmas – it’s perfect for Hampton Court Palace (£9.99)

The comprehensive gift selection has lower priced items to high-end luxury goods.

A tempting range of Queen B items for the members of #TeamBoleyn

Pass the cheese!

The Queen B T-shirt is one of my favourite items in the Queen B range (£17.99) the tote bag is a reasonable £14.99 and the mug £9.99

Cake, chocolate and truffles for your Christmas indulgences (£7.50)

The Medieval Cookbook with modern imperial and metric measurements for the experimental food historian (£12.99)

Saint Nicholas gifting gold through the window to the father of the three daughters (Gerard David circa 1500 – 1510)

St Nicholas resurrecting three boys (Gentile da Fabriano circa 1425)

Saint Nicholas delivering goodies in the shoes of waiting children (Image: Pinterest)

Christmas Card from the 58th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force 1917

To Mary Gray from her son William James Gray

William James Gray with an unknown companion

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An American nativity scene from 1910

Fancy_Dress_and_Fancy_Anything_(11432112395) 1918

Jenny Nystrom 1915

Jenny Nystrom 1910

Jenny Nystrom

Jenny Nystrom (1920)

Jenny Nyström

Jenny Nyström (1896)

Jenny Nyström (1899)

Jenny Nyström (1894)

Jultomte and the julbocken

Swans, the National Archives

Suffragette selection

Suffragette Christmas cards and Votes for Women mug

A book fan in the green of the WSPU (£4.99)

Calligraphy selection

Exploration selection

Tudor rose (£10.99)

The slender Christmas tree at the National Archives shop

The royal line of succession in MAGNETS!

Swan gifts at the National Archives

Suffragette hanging decoration

Twentieth century women’s history selection

Deeds not Words hanging decoration

Cosmic bauble

Cosmic bauble (£3.00)

Galileo ‘the father of modern science’

Embroidered Galileo

Galileo Galilei (£12.00)

What do you think of this astronaut tree decoration? (£12.00)

Science Museum, London

Just for fun (£2.00)

Everybody loves to hate a Christmas jumper, don’t they? (£30.00)

More space-themed decorations

Laika hanging tree decoration (15.00)

To infinity? Or the moon? (£12.00)

Because this is important . . .

The periodic table made easy! (£10.00)

Grown-up sweets (£12.00)

Radioactive Sours (£2.00)

This quote t-shirt is a very reasonable £20.00

Embroidered Albert Einstein hanging tree decoration (£12.00)

And so is this!

For the pharmacy professional (and historian) because coffee is always important (£10.00)

Queen Elizabeth II’s Christmas broadcast, 1952

All I want for Christmas (is my two Front Teeth)

King George V broadcasting to the nation

The Peter Pan Cup, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, London (Photo: SSC)

Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park, London. Images from the 1914 cup, with 1913 winner G Gyton. (Photo: Londonist.com)

New Zealand Christmas postcard circa 1905 – 1910

New Zealand Christmas card 1915

New Zealand Christmas postcard circa 1905 – 1910

New Zealand Christmas card 1900 – 1919

Bletchley Park Christmas Card

Stone of Scone at Arbroath Abbey, April 1951

Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Christmas Pudding (Photo: Pinterest)

King George I

Henry VIII’s Court by Fortunino Mantania

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh looking at their Christmas tree in 1969

Queen Elizabeth II with fashion designer Zandra Rhodes in 1998

Queen Elizabeth II, Christmas 2017

Duke and Duchess of York Christmas 1929

Prince William, Queen Elizabeth II, Peter Phillips (rear), Prince Harry (front) Prince Philip, Zara Phillips

Tim Laurence, Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York, Princess Eugenie (front) Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II (front), Prince Edward, Prince Harry (front), Prince William, Zara Phillips, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Beatrice (front).