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Cancelling Christmas and the Plum Pudding Riots

Almost History by Ian Chapman-Curry

May 11, 201712:59Arts

Send us Fan Mail In 1647, the new puritan government tried to cancel Christmas. People in Canterbury protested in a peculiarly English way, with a destructive game of football followed by a mass brawl. The city’s Plum Pu...

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Cancelling Christmas and the Plum Pudding Riots is an episode from Almost History by Ian Chapman-Curry. Send us Fan Mail In 1647, the new puritan government tried to cancel Christmas. People in Canterbury protested in a peculiarly English w...

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Published May 11, 2017, 12:59 long, audio available.