A short (3 hours and 3 minutes) and mildly entertaining audiobook about the history of Christmas in Bill Bryson's inimitable style, narrated by the author himself. It focuses mostly on the UK and USA. It's remarkable how many of our Christmas traditions are relatively recent. Most of the them date from the 1840s onwards. It's reassuring to know that Christmas has always been about feasting and excess, drawing as it does on the Roman festival of Saturnalia. Full of facts and tidbits, which I will now forget or vaguely misremember.
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