DURING the English Civil Wars, the Puritans saw Christmas as a made-up celebration with pagan rituals such as hanging greenery and merry making!
In 1647 it was banned. It was not banned by Oliver Cromwell himself – this is a myth born in the Restoration of 1660.
PAUL HARDING, DISCOVER HISTORY
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