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Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children gather around a Christmas tree, December 1848. Webster Museum. Public Domain.

The First Christmas Tree

Alison Barnes | Published in History Today Volume 56 Issue 12 December 2006

Contrary to myth, it wasn’t Prince Albert but another German royal transplant who introduced the Christmas tree to Britain.

A Young Nationalist in the Easter Rising

Anthony Fletcher | Published in History Today Volume 56 Issue 4 April 2006

Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising, to explore her yo