The History of Santa Claus & Father Christmas -- just a bit of seasonal fun :) http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/ pic.twitter.com/zEBbnX1Ujo
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Oxford Scholarly Editions version of Ben Jonson's 1616 "Christmas his Masque": http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198113584.book.1/actrade-9780198113584-div2-31?r-1=1.000&wm-1=0&t-1=workmap-tab&p1-1=1&w1-1=0.600&p2-1=1&w2-1=0.400#.VnGEREwZpXM.twitter …pic.twitter.com/XLjrKjL0F0
Some pre-Coca-Cola images of Santa: White Rock, 1923; Puck, 1902; Nast, 1869 -- http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/pages/santa.htm …pic.twitter.com/4HM8rZjkyI
A v early illustration of 'Sante Claus' from The Children's Friend, William B. Gilley, 1821: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/origin-of-santa/ …pic.twitter.com/SPK2BIfTiG
Stephen Nissenbaum on the E19thC American creation of Santa Claus+sanitisation of Christmas: http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/christmas-reborn-the-creation-of-a-consumer-christmas-professor-steven-nissenbaum-in-interview/ …pic.twitter.com/bAPNHl4ZMr
'I Am Here, Sir Christëmas', a 15thC carol with a very early personified Christmas: http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/i_am_here_sir_christemas.htm …pic.twitter.com/LY7DwIzztn
A similar 15C carol w/ 'Syre Christemas', from @ClerkofOxford: http://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/good-day-sir-christmas.html … (pic=http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msarchseldenb26/8r.jpg …)pic.twitter.com/MUXWRin4Tk
@caitlinrgreen Love this one! It's just been given a new setting for @MusicMagazine by @CherylHoad http://m.classical-music.com/article/download-score-good-day-sir-christemas-cheryl-frances-hoad …
@ClerkofOxford @MusicMagazine @CherylHoad Thanks for this! :)
Old Christmas on the cover of the 1842 Christmas supplement to the London Illustrated News: http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/xmas2.htm …pic.twitter.com/XRZ59Q8px7
A message from Father Christmas; Illustrated London News, 1845 :) http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/xmas2.htm …pic.twitter.com/mUe2cfBAq7
Dickens's Ghost of Christmas Present, by John Leech, 1843, a version of Father Christmas & dressed in green: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scrooges_third_visitor-John_Leech,1843.jpg …pic.twitter.com/dn5dLeHZXA
A Victorian-era German 'Father Christmas' with a foliage beard:pic.twitter.com/8IFExbT5uj
Old Christmas on the cover of the 1842 Christmas supplement to the London Illustrated News: http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/xmas2.htm …pic.twitter.com/WYfc9oR7r5
'The Examination and Tryal of Old Father Christmas' (1686): http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/detail/FOLGERCM1~6~6~204874~112692:The-examination-and-tryal-of-old-Fa# … & http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Poetry/examination__and__tryal_of.htm …pic.twitter.com/3bc8EQkfKa
@caitlinrgreen Note the Puritan has a feather in his hat and lace on his shorts.
@caitlinrgreen the days before #cococola; )
Hmm...that merger seems to coincide rather well with the birth of modern mass marketing. Probably no connection!
@caitlinrgreen So all that people could do then was to get together and...talk to one another?
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