J.A.R. Pimlott

An English Puritan family by William Dobson, c. 1645. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Public Domain.

Christmas under the Puritans

Celebration of Christmas was curtailed by England’s Puritan republic but the methods and results varied considerably.

Mummers

Merry Christmas

J.A.R. Pimlott studies the development of the Christmas Spirit—from Pagan Saturnalia to Victorian family party