thestuartkings:Father Christmas was banned by the Puritans under Cromwell in the mid-17th century.
thestuartkings: Father Christmas was banned by the Puritans under Cromwell in the mid-17th century. He went ‘underground’ along with Minced Pies, Christmas games and the like. Occasionally secret publishers would print Broadsheets (a sort of newspaper) with a verse about ‘Old Christmas’. He became the personification of everything the British people held dear about Christmas. -- source link
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