'A Christmas Carol' Marvelously Captured the Holiday's Victorian Spirit and Inspired New Traditions for Centuries to Come. ... The mid-19th century found Great Britain in the midst of an identity ...

Although Ernst Anschütz's well-known 1824 carol dedicated to the tree is translated into English as "O Christmas Tree," the title of the original German tune is simply "Tannenbaum," meaning fir tree.

GREAT BRITAIN: A Christmas Hope; GREAT BRITAIN: A Christmas Hope. 2 minute read. TIME. December 30, 1946 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... —A Christmas Carol, Dickens.

To New England Puritans, Christmas was sacred, and they considered Christmas carols, decorated trees and joyful expressions a desecration. To New England Puritans, ...

Boxing Day, which is a public holiday in the UK, falls the day after Christmas and has a rich cultural history in Great Britain. Originating in the mid-1600s, the day was traditionally a day off ...

A British tradition. Annual sales and circulation of Christmas cards have been in decline since the 1990s. Laments over the potential “death” of the Christmas card have been especially vocal ...

Cast, crew observe many traditions over the nearly 50-year run of "A Christmas Carol" at the Omaha Community Playhouse.

The mid-19th century found Great Britain in the midst of an identity crisis. The Industrial Revolution was reshaping the nation’s urban spaces, economic hierarchies and society.