Many of the Christmas traditions and practice we have the most can be traced back to the Victorian era, which covers the duration of Queen Victoria's ruling over the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901. During that spot, the country experienced something of a surfacing from its formerly Puritanical bans on extravagant celebrations. Naturally, people pretty exuberantly embraced their newly merry and flamboyant celebrations, spawning a crowd of traditions. Many of the most trendy Victorian traditions are still very much in apply nowadays.
Perhaps one of the most common Victorian Christmas traditions that is still observed today is the transport of Christmas cards. The perform of sending written Christmas cards ongoing in England and was a modification of the then customary marks of greetings by English children to their parents. The printed cards enjoyed huge sensation and later became a contagious practice that reach from England to the breather of the UK then to the break of the world. More than a century later, we still convey Christmas cards by the truckload to destinations around the sphere.
The Christmas hierarchy was not a British innovation, but memoirs has it that the German companion of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, brought and introduced the Christmas ranking from Germany to the United Kingdom in the 1840s. From Windsor castle, the tree's popularity drape quickly, becoming even more general in the US than it ever was in England, and now the Christmas tree is practically synonymous with Christmas, even however were banned by the Puritans as being far too pagan in its imagery. Two London-based sweets makers, James Hovell and Tom Smith false Christmas nuts in 1846. The confectionery makers wrapped their sweets in tinted paper twisted around the gleam. The wrapped candies became broaden admired when honey comments, small toys and other bits and pieces were also tucked inside the wild. The traditional visitations of chant singers also ongoing in England during the Victorian era. Popular Christmas carols became crowd favorites. Among them were 'O Come All Ye Faithful', 'See Amid the Winters Snow' and 'O Little Town of Bethlehem'.
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