"Merry Christmas to All!!" Image from Clement Moore's A Visit from Saint Nicholas. 1862
Christmas taped talks: Tudor; Victorian; Wartime - Am Rev, Civil War, WWII; PA German; how slaves were really treated on Christmas; 400 years at sea, many more.
Some 'spirited' upcoming talks this week: Britain’s oldest pubs (medieval); London’s largest brewery, hop factors and warehouses; and Hollywood nightlife. Below
Many drinks, taverns, Prohibition, moonshine, beer, wine, etc. taped talks. HERE
Christmas past blog posts - topics listed at end HERE
Tapes of Christmas talks
NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK
The Spirit of Christmas Past: Four Centuries of Christmas in New England. Ken Turino. Gunn Historical Museum Dec 8 2020 TAPE HERE
Decorating Your Historic Home for the Holidays. “how holiday decor evolved overtime in New England.” And how to use. Erik Wochholz. NH Preservation Alliance TAPE HERE
Christmas in the Tenements. Tenement Museum. Donation Dec 20 2022 HERE TAPE for 2 weeks HERE
Delicious December: How the Dutch Brought Us Santa, Presents, and Treats. Peter G. Rose. Ben Franklin’s World. Podcast 2015 TAPE HERE
PENNSYLVANIA
Christmas Traditions of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Patrick Donmoyer, Director of The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center at Kutztown University. BCTV Dec 4 2020 TAPE HERE
Moravian Christmas Traditions. Christmas Eve love feasts, candle tea… Johanna Metzgar Brown of Old Salem. North Carolina Museum of History. Dec 16 2020 TAPE HERE
Christmas at Barns-Brinton House Chadds Ford. Chester County Historic Preservation Network PA Dec 17 2020 TAPE HERE
Twelfth Night Cake at the hearth of Pottsgrove Manor PA 1752 and many other cooking at the hearth videos since April! 2020 TAPES HERE scroll down
SOUTHERN - Maryland, Virginia, Louisiana
Yuletide in Dixie. Dr. Robert May author Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory. Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses (HGGHH) Dec 14 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
Christmas in the Frederick, Maryland's Civil War Hospitals. Jake Wynn. National Museum of Civil War Medicine. ppt 5:25 2020 TAPE HERE
Early Victorian Christmas Traditions. Food, feasting, trees, cards, gifts, Santa. Laurel Historical Society MD Dec 10 2020 TAPE HERE
Christmastide: colonial cooking demo. Cheyney McKnight, Dontavius Williams, and Nicole Moore. Chocolate, oyster stew, and greens with root veg. Stratford Hall, VA Dec 12 2020 TAPE HERE
Caesar’s Chocolate: The History and Legacy of one of Virginia’s Earliest Chocolate Makers. Chef Christopher Scott, Dontavius Williams. Stratford Hall VA Dec 15 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
AFRICAN AMERICAN
Yuletide in Dixie. Dr. Robert May author Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory. How the slaves were really treated at Christmas. Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses (HGGHH) Dec 14 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
Stealing Joy: Finding resilience in Black Holiday traditions. “history and recipes of the African American experience” Kamau Ware, Nicole Taylor. Van Cortlandt Park Alliance Dec 3 2020 HERE TAPE HERE
WHITE HOUSE
Holidays at the White House. Sarah Morgan of Cooking with the First Ladies. National First Ladies' Library. Dec 20 2021 TAPE HERE
Christmas at the White House. Dr. Leslie Goddard. Bayville Free Library. Dec 19 2022 TAPE HERE
WARTIME - RevWar, Civil War, WWII
Revolutionary Christmas - Christmas during the American Revolution. American and French soldiers and officers. Dr. Iris de Rode. National Park Service Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail. Dec 14 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
Christmas in the Frederick, Maryland's Civil War Hospitals. Jake Wynn. National Museum of Civil War Medicine. ppt 5:25 2020 TAPE HERE
Make Do and Be Merry: A Chocolate Cake for a Homefront Christmas. “explore how two 1940s-era chocolate cakes approached the challenges of rationing…” Margo McCutcheon, Jennifer Parsley. Friends of the Texas Historical Commission. Dec 1 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
How Britain Spent Christmas Hiding From The Blitz. 1944 WWII at “Wartime Farm” BBC program Dec 2020 TAPE HERE
Christmas at Sea: 400 Years of the Festive Season Afloat. Richard Blakemore, Maya Wassell-Smit, Ellen Gill, Brian Lavery. Institute of Historical Research (IHR) U of London HERE Dec 7 2021 TAPE HERE
GENERAL
Christmas and New Years Culinary Traditions. Sarah Lohman. Chelmsford Public Library MA Dec 15 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
Holiday Baking Tips from award-winning author, Rose Levy Beranbaum of The Cookie Bible. Hudson Library & Historical Society, Ohio Nv 19 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
UNITED KINGDOM
Lucy Worsley's 12 Days of Tudor Christmas PBS 2019 TAPE HERE
Tudor Christmas. Making items in outbuilding, and discuss items and history. Mark Griffin, Kathy Hipperson. Llwyn Celyn. 1420 in Wales. Landmark trust UK Dec 2020 TAPE HERE
Christmas Past, Christmas Present. early recipe books treatments for hangovers and over indulging. Charlotte Holmes. 1st talk on genetics of family dynamics by Kevin O’Dell. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Dec 9 2020 TAPE HERE
Christmas at Sea: 400 Years of the Festive Season Afloat. Richard Blakemore, Maya Wassell-Smit, Ellen Gill, Brian Lavery. Institute of Historical Research (IHR) U of London HERE Dec 7 2021 TAPE HERE
A very Cavendish Christmas. “from feasts thrown in the day of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, to the Christmas shoots organised by his descendant, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland.” Dr. Fiona Clapperton. Harley Foundation. Welbeck estate UK. nOV 25 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
Scoff: Why We Eat What We Eat at Christmas author Pen Vogler with Rosie Boycott, cross-bench peer and co-founder of 5x15 donations to 5x15 £0 – £22.15 Dec 14 2020 TAPE HERE
VICTORIAN 1800s
Victorian Christmas. Making items in outbuilding, and discuss items and history. Mark Griffin, Kathy Hipperson. Llwyn Celyn. 1420 in Wales. Landmark Trust UK Dec 2020 TAPE HERE
Mrs. Beeton’s Christmas. Talk starts at 24 min, history from Medieval through Victorian, Beeton starts 55 min. Beeton's Book of Household Management, 1861. Dr Annie Gray. Ironbridge Gorge Museum. 2017 TAPE HERE
Rather Splendid Christmas London Walk and its Traditions - Bah Humbug! Fun 23 min. tour/production with foods (pie, wassail...) showing locations in Dickens Christmas Carol, and many traditions UK. by Joolz Guides many tapes 2020 HERE TAPE HERE
The Rich Miss Scott’s [Duchess of Portland] Christmas Special. “Duchess Henrietta's household accounts from 1813-1834.” Deriek Adlam. The Harley Gallery, Portland Collection museum UK. Dec 17 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Food Glorious Food: Dinner with Dickens. Series of short videos by Pen Volger author of Dinner with Dickens and Christmas with Dickens for 2018-2019 exhibit at Charles Dickens Museum HERE
The original Christmas Pudding Recipe: Cooking with Dickens 10 min TAPE HERE
Delicious Victorian Gingerbread: Cooking with Dickens 9min TAPE HERE
Charles Dickens's Favourite Brandy Punch Recipe: Cooking with Dickens 7 min. TAPE HERE
Alexis Soyer: Victorian Celebrity Chef 3 min TAPE HERE
Toasted Cheese with the Dickenses 2 min TAPE HERE
The Victorian Christmas kitchen at Llwyn Celyn in Wales. Mark Griffin and Kathy Hipperson. The Landmark Trust. Dec 2020 TAPE HERE
Victoriana: Christmas Traditions. Mandy Crypt. Effing Chicago HERE live on their Facebook page, Dec 8 2021 TAPE HERE
Celebrating a Victorian Christmas with Körner’s Folly. NC “seasonal food and drinks from the family cookbook” and decorations for the Körner family’s c1880 home. Suzanna Ritz. N. C Museum of History Dec 9 2021 TAPE HERE
20th Century UK
“Home for Xmas?”: mobility, marketing and London’s railways at Christmas, 1900-1914. David Turner. Institute of Historical Research (IHR) U of London Dec 16 2021 HERE TAPE HERE
Magic & Sparkle: M&S at Christmas. Marks & Spencer store archives Dec 2020 TAPES HERE
The Periodic Christmas Dinner Table. Pp Plum pudding, Mw Mulled wine… entertaining overview. John Hardy UK Dec 2020 HERE. TAPE HERE
CANADA, FRANCE, JAMAICA, SCANDINAVIA
Tourtiére: A Savory Holiday Pie. Traditional French Canadian pie with Amy Thielen. Farm Table Foundation $25 Dec 18 2022 HERE TAPE HERE
The Thirteen Desserts & Mulled Wine. History and traditions of ‘The Thirteen Desserts’ for Christmas in the South of France. Anina Belle and Sébastien Giannini. The Alliance Française of Washington, D.C. $5 Dec 18 2021 TAPE HERE
Exploring Music & Food: Christmas in Jamaica Edition. presented on Facebook. Culinary Literacy Center. Phila. Dec 2020 HERE TAPE HERE
Classic Scandinavian holiday treats. Learn history and make Swedish kanelbullar and Norwegian knots (cinnamon buns), Sweden’s St. Lucia buns (saffron, for St. Lucia Day, Dec 13 ) and Danish kringle (layers of pastry with fruit). Terry Kelzer. Farm Table Foundation $10-20 Dec 10 2020 TAPE HERE
SPIRITS AND OTHER DRINKS, TAVERNS, Prohibition, Moonshine, etc. taped talks HERE
Christmas past blog posts: Stir-up Sunday, Plum Pudding, & how to slice, Hard Sauce, Christmas Cake, 16th cen poem, 1730 poem, Turkeys on the Norfolk Coach to London...or they walked; Lebkuchen - German honey cake for Christmas, Belsnickel; German Christmas tree, sugar ornaments and garden board base; Swedish St. Lucia Day breakfast, Roasted chestnut street sellers, Antebellum Virginia, Egg Nog, Image of 1800 & 1829 Christmas dinners, Flowering fruit tree branches as Christmas trees, Holly on food, Presents for landlords
THIS WEEK'S TALKS
Dec 24 Sat 11AM Jane Austen Mince Pie Bake-Along. A Christmas 1830s Mince Pie. Paul Couchman. Regency Cook. £18.50 – £21 HERE
Dec 26 Mon 7:30-9AM [&other dates] Chinese Kitchen Online Cooking Class: Xiaolongbao Soup Dumplings. “Shanghai-style specialty is beloved throughout China and the world. Unlike dumplings or baozi, this little bundle of joy contains delicious soup inside [dumpling].” Trippest $29.98 HERE
Dec 26 Mon 4:30 Booze and the Borough. “Hop factors and warehouses evoke laden wagons arriving from Kent, Sussex and Surrey. This tour tells of one of London’s largest breweries, and of a very dangerous umbrella.” David Charnick, Footprints of London £10 HERE also De 31
De 27 Tue 4 The Herbal Hour: The Merry Mints. David Traupman. The Solo Ager HERE
De 27 Tue 5:30 Out with the Stars: Nightlife in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Lucy Jane Santos. New York Adventure Club $10 tape for week HERE
De 28 Wed 7:45AM Welcome to our village! A glimpse into rural life in Uganda. Heygo HERE
De 29 Thu 1-2:30 New York's "Little Germany.” Sylvia Laudien-Meo. New York Adventure Club $10 tape for week HERE
Dec 29 Thur 2 In Search of Britain's Oldest Pubs: The Folklore, Archaeology and History of Mediaeval Boozers. James Wright. Triskele Heritage. Donation. No tape HERE
Dec 31 Sat 4:30 Booze and the Borough. “Hop factors and warehouses evoke laden wagons arriving from Kent, Sussex and Surrey. This tour tells of one of London’s largest breweries, and of a very dangerous umbrella.” David Charnick, Footprints of London £10 HERE also De 26
CALENDAR OF VIRTUAL FOOD HISTORY TALKS HERE
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