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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 Pu...
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