After the great triumph, the village people of England adopted the tradition and combined it with the Christmas tradition, and the church of England eventually adopted the tradition. At the Church ...

possibly because of the anti-Christmas traditions of New England. In fact, many of New England’s churches are still closed on 25 December. It was not until 1870 that Christmas became a federal ...

Christmas celebrates the birth of Christ, which one might think would make it a hands-down joyous occasion. Nope. Christmas ...

New England Christmas food traditions are anchored in the foods brought over by the region’s earliest European settlers. Roasted Christmas goose makes more appearances on Christmas tables in the ...

But for the holiday season in 1984, he traveled 4,000 miles across the pond to England for a Channel 2 special where he showed Chicago families all the traditions and customs of Christmas there.

Kate, the Princess of Wales, turns 43 on Thursday, capping what was a tumultuous year for the mother of three and wife of Prince William. Kate, who was born Jan. 9, 1982, is expected to spend her ...

The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea will host three performances for the festival Jan. 4-5, marking the event's 48th ...

From the exotic to the everyday, the royals Christmas menus through the years might pose some surprises: with moulds of puréed pheasant meat and macaroni with tomato sauce.

Folktales around the fire, gooding & mumping and the terrifying Hooden Horse are just some of England's winter ... dark origins of some of our Christmas traditions that can be traced back ...

“The darts at Christmas, it’s just a British tradition,” said Colette Sullivan of Hampshire County, in southeast England.

And in Puritan England, in New England, they did also. In Scotland they did. So in places where they took that very seriously, they don’t have very strong Christmas traditions. And I think in a way ...