Wed 7th December 2022

The History Live Christmas meeting will be held on Wednesday December 7th at 7.30pm in Warslow Village Hall.  Doors will be open at 7pm so do come early to enjoy refreshments  (including mince pies of course) and to give yourself time to buy raffle tickets in aid of the Air Ambulance.

We would like to thank everyone who has donated prizes for the raffle, we have an amazing selection!  A particularly big THANK YOU to High Peak Bookstore and Cafe; Longnor Village Stores; Cobbles Cafe (Longnor); Longnor Post Office; The Greyhound Warslow; Gerald Harrison, Greengrocer, Leek; The Curiosity Shop, Butter Market Leek; Moorlands Cook Shop, St Edward’s Street Leek and Breckles Wholefoods, Leek.   Please everyone support these local businesses, who have been so generous to History Live and let’s raise lots of money for the Air Ambulance!

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Our speaker is Danny Wells who will tell us how the Victorians ‘invented’ many of the Christmas traditions that we now know.  It was early in Queen Victoria’s reign that many of these traditions were introduced, including the arrival of the Christmas Card, the Christmas Cracker and new-found popularity of the Christmas Tree.  The Victorians repackaged older traditions and customs that suited their new sensibilities, ideas and concerns. It is said the Victorians ‘mixed the ingredients of the English Christmas to create an extremely rich plum pudding’.

Danny is a former history teacher, community worker and also has an MA in Architectural History.  He particularly enjoys ‘unlocking the past’ of social and cultural history.