Lucy Worsley's 12 days of Tudor Christmas

Lucy Worsley recreates how Christmas was celebrated during the age of Henry VIII, eating, drinking, singing, dancing and partying as people did 500 years ago. On each of the traditional twelve days of Christmas, Lucy rev...

A Tudor Christmas —Weir, Alison, 1951- author.

"Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking 'to drive the cold winter away.' A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre p...