Day 15 of our Heritage Advent Calendar brings our penultimate visit to Chambers’ Book of Days, and with it an entry we recommend you DO NOT try at home. Today we’re looking at one party game in particular, Snap Dragon. We’ll let Chambers explain in his own words. “A quantity of raisins are deposited in…
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Christmas-Morning Carols by Children in Yorkshire
It’s day 13 of our Advent Calendar and Senior Librarian, Louise Birch is returning for a second visit to Robert Chambers ‘The Book of Day: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character.’ Vol. 2 (1864). We’ll leave…
Any Mummers Allowed In?
It’s day 9 of our Advent Calendar and today Senior Librarian Louise Birch will take us on our first visit to Robert Chambers ‘The Book of Day: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character.’ Vol. 2 (1864)…
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