Absolute History: Victorian Christmas
three installments of Christmas at the Victorian Farm
Merry Christmas
(war is raging)
Christmas in Bethlehem
during a genocide
Inside Richard E. Grant’s Georgian House at Christmas | Design Notes
Richard E. Grant welcomes us into his London home at Christmas. Filled with an abundance of treasures, Richard’s house sits within a walled garden littered with the dark foliage of…
Inside Sean Pritchard’s cosy Christmas cottage in the English countryside | Living with Style
When it comes to decorating for Christmas, award-winning gardener Sean Pritchard doesn't do things by halves. Despite the close quarters of his cosy Somerset cottage, there's not an inch that…
The Pitch for Frosty the Snowman
“it can’t be about the Vietnam war!”
A Ghost Story for Christmas
A Ghost Story for Christmas is a strand of annual British short television films originally broadcast on BBC One between 1971 and 1978, and revived sporadically by the BBC since…
Drabblecast 455 – How Lovely Are Your Branches
Norm closes out the year and existence as we know it, due to the phenomena known as “The Continuation,” with the Drabblecast annual holiday Tim Pratt story, an original commission…
A Meditation on Forests, Life, and Art: Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Fir Tree”
“The Fir Tree” was originally published in New Fairy Tales, Second Collection (1844) next to another winter tale, The Snow Queen. It was swiftly overshadowed by that other story and…