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Claire | February 21, 2012
Today is Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day, as my children call it, so I thought it would be good to write a quick article about Lent in Tudor times. Lent was, and is, the lead-up to Holy Week and it lasted six and a half weeks. In Tudor times, it was a period of fasting, […]
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Tags: Lent, pancake day, pancakes, Shrove Tuesday, shrovetide, shrovetide joust, Tudor traditions
Claire | December 11, 2009
The modern day British Christmas, with its Christmas trees, mincepies, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, turkey and all the trimmings, Christmas cards and Christmas crackers, has most of its roots in the Victorian era and is light years away from how Christmas was celebrated in Medieval and Tudor times. So how was this important religious festival […]
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Tags: Boy Bishop, Lord of Misrule, Tudor Christmas, Tudor traditions, wassail
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