Cancelling Christmas and the Plum Pudding Riots

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 Pudding Riots led to a royalist revolt throughout Kent and the second round of the Civil War. With Parliamentary armies fighting in Wales and Scotland, could this have marked a revival in fortunes for the beleaguered King Charles the First? Do you like the podcast? Please rate or review the podcast and share it with friends. On iTunes, this takes a couple of steps but it is the best way to help me reach a wider audience. 1. Search for Vaguely Interesting History on the Podcast app. 2. Tap the podcast artwork under the Podcasts heading (the red and white logo). 3. Tap reviews and leave a star rating or, even better, add a review as well! Music credits The theme music is Newsroom by Riot. The other music featured in this episode was Air Hockey Saloon by Chris Zabriskie ( and Sacred Motion by staRpauSe ( Both are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (

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Cancelling Christmas and the Plum Pudding Riots is an episode from Almost History by Ian Chapman-Curry.

This episode is 12:59 long.

This episode was published on May 11, 2017.

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