Tag: Presents

• The Tomb of Santa Claus

  

  “Only the very young or very unsophisticated maintain the surviving faith in the legend of Santa Claus.” So was written in the Derry Journal on Friday 22nd December 1933. Santa Claus, as I’m sure everyone is aware, is a hybrid of different folklores and popularised by the iconic (and frankly, bloody annoying) advert Coca Cola trot […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  December 23, 2019

  christmas, History, Polar, Religion

  Basilica, christmas, County Kilkenny, Father Christmas, festive, Ho Ho Ho, Ireland, Italy, Jolly, Myra, Presents, Public History, Reindeer, Santa Claus, Seasons Greetings, Turkey, Venice, Yuletide

• Where is the Inventor of the Christmas Cracker?

  

  I can’t say I expected to be clambering through dense ivy and wonky headstones, days away from Christmas. But then, this is Cemetery Club and frankly how else would I be spending my birthday! Aided by Sacha, I was on a mission. I was looking for the final resting place of a man who gave us […]

  Sheldon K Goodman

  December 21, 2018

  christmas, History, London

  Bang, christmas, Christmas crackers, Clerkenwell, festive, Finsbury, Hampstead, Highgate Cemetery, Presents, Rediscovered, Yuletide