Preston Konrad, who worked in design and visual merchandising at Ralph Lauren (and even installed Christmas displays for the ...

While Christmas is celebrated all over the world, there are some differences in the way people in the the U.S. and the U.K. celebrate the holiday. Take dinner, for instance: A lot of Americans usually ...

While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first Christmas card’s design was actually influenced by other, older British holiday ...

When families and loved ones gather 'round the table on Christmas Day, dinner will take endless forms. But for anyone with English roots, or who has let Charles Dickens and Victorian traditions shape ...

This dense, definitive guide to winter and Christmas, specifically an English Christmas, is crammed with personal recollections, history and lore, and threaded with recipes and photos of landscapes ...

Charles Dickens’s classic holiday novella, A Christmas Carol, is full of food and drinks — many of which are still classic holiday dishes and some of which have been forgotten. Here are some of the ...

Elizabeth David, perhaps the most celebrated English food writer of the past century, enjoys a place in British cooking and culture akin to that of Julia Child in the United States. Now a new cookbook ...

“Panto has everything theatrical – song, dance, verse, slapstick, soliloquy, audience participation, spectacle, cross- dressing and a good plot, strong on morality and romance – what more could you ...