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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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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 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 19 Dec 2017

      By the early twentieth century, the American Santa Claus had also spread to Japan, as seen in this image of a modern-looking Santa Claus from 1914: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1914_Santa_Claus.jpg …pic.twitter.com/WUoCQVOXdD

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    8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Dec 2017

      Worth noting, incidentally, that the modern-looking Japanese Santa dates from well before the first Coca-Cola Santa ad campaign in 1931; see further https://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp … on the myth of Coca-Cola's creation of the modern Santa :)pic.twitter.com/AevhgcswHL

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    9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Dec 2017

      A couple more pre-Coca-Cola Santas, from 1918 and 1902.pic.twitter.com/EBetaPoQO0

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    10. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Dec 2017

      Before he started endorsing Coca-Cola, a very modern-looking Santa Claus had previously endorsed White Rock mineral water and ginger ale… (images from Life magazine, Dec 1923 and Dec 1924): http://www.whiterocking.org/santa.html pic.twitter.com/p3yR0zkZTE

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      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Dec 2017

      Santa endorsed products well before White Rock and Coca-Cola too — here's the label from a box of Santa Claus Sugar Plums, 1868: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Claus_Sugar_Plums,_1868.png …pic.twitter.com/HRumKbVcqb

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Dec 2017

          The first of J.R.R. Tolkien's letters from Father Christmas, 1920—although he used the English name for the Christmas visitor, he also made liberal use of elements from the American Santa Claus lore and included both elves & goblins: https://theconversation.com/amp/j-r-r-tolkiens-christmas-letters-to-his-children-bring-echoes-of-middle-earth-to-the-north-pole-89464 …pic.twitter.com/lTDazanRHu

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 24 Dec 2017

          'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there… (pic=http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Christmas/mcloughlinedition.htm …, 1896)pic.twitter.com/XMhtB6ibFA

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        2. T S P‏ @morangles 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          I dare not say it but the first Christmas tree was presented at Versailles in 1711 through Princess Charlotte Elizabeth of Bavaria

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        3. T S P‏ @morangles 22 Dec 2017
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          @HistoryGems This very 1st Christmas tree predates easily by 100ys Victoria but did not last German born duchess of Orleans met w/opposition

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        4. T S P‏ @morangles 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @morangles @caitlinrgreen @HistoryGems

          @Berserkjablogg @locktowndog Marquise of Maintenon recognized it as pagan informed her husband the king /morganatic marriage end of tree

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        5. T S P‏ @morangles 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @morangles @caitlinrgreen and

          Thus our Christmas tree was already in use in German courts prior to 1711 Later Queen Maria Lesczynska originally from Poland tried again

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        6. T S P‏ @morangles 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @morangles @caitlinrgreen and

          To fail again because she was not as fashionable as the King mistress! France lasting tree tradition will wait December 1837 after marriage

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        7. T S P‏ @morangles 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @morangles @caitlinrgreen and

          To king Louis Philippe heir. Yes we beat British tradition by 3ys in 1837 along 131ys with Liselotte duchess of Orleans. #smugface

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