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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Dec 2017

      Turning to look at St Nicholas/Santa Claus, an article on Stephen Nissenbaum's research into the early 19th-century American creation of Santa Claus & the sanitisation of Christmas: http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/christmas-reborn-the-creation-of-a-consumer-christmas-professor-steven-nissenbaum-in-interview/ …pic.twitter.com/zY7SV7q8Pw

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    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Dec 2017

      A very 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/E5RY5akOUz

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    3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Dec 2017

      Robert Weir's painting of St Nicholas, c. 1837: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/st-nicholas-27465 … For more on this painting and the Knickerbocker interest in reinventing St Nicholas/Santa Claus, see https://www.jstor.org/stable/3050448?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents …pic.twitter.com/VrjzqMnbTA

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    4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Dec 2017

      St Nicholas/Santa Claus before Thomas Nast—illustrations to Moore's 'Night Before Christmas' by Louis Prang, 1864: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Christmas/prang.htm …pic.twitter.com/3ncaTOsFlP

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    5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Dec 2017

      Thomas Nast's illustrations for Clement Clarke Moore's 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas', 1869: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Christmas/nast.htm …pic.twitter.com/sEo6hjUz4N

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    6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Dec 2017

      Thomas Nast's Santa Claus and his Works, c.1869: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/origin-of-santa/ …pic.twitter.com/m1fEqQFpi9

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    7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 19 Dec 2017

      The American Santa Claus as a Christmas gift-giver was first noted in England in 1879—19th-century folklorists initially puzzled by him, not knowing who he was, with one guessing it was ‘Santa Cruz, the Holy Cross’ which brought the presents: http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/pages/history.htm …pic.twitter.com/GHj7DKbYsi

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    8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 19 Dec 2017

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      By the late 19th/early 20th century, the English Father Christmas and the American Santa Claus had become interchangeable & largely indistinguishable...https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/942154297172688896 …

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      Father Christmas — merged with St Nicholas/Santa Claus in the late 19th century, but originally separate & gave no gifts to children! http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/pages/english.htm … pic.twitter.com/T8uiaNtj0n
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    9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 19 Dec 2017

      Old Father Christmas riding on a Yule goat, 1836, & Father Christmas as gift-giver on an English postcard of 1919: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Christmas_riding_a_goat,_by_Robert_Seymour,_1836.jpg … & https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Father_Christmas,_Tuck_Photo_Oilette_postcard_1919,_front.jpg …pic.twitter.com/wiK0W71uVo

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    10. Ennius‏ @red_loeb 19 Dec 2017
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      Father Christmas on the Yule goat looks rather sinister.

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      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 19 Dec 2017
      Replying to @red_loeb

      Indeed! A rather different character back then...!

      7:12 AM - 19 Dec 2017
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