Advent Calendar: 17 December – Gingerbread
Ginger bread Take 4 quarts of fine flower and a pound of sweet butter and half an ounce of ginger and as much pepper beatten and half a quarter a pint of […]
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Advent Calendar: 16 December – Christmas Party
A black and white photograph of a Christmas party, complete with Christmas tree and Father Christmas (GMC-4-5-3). The photograph is by George Cowie, a local press photographer from 1930 to […]
Advent Calendar: 15 December – WWI Christmas Cards
Christmas cards were very popular during the First World War, perhaps bringing a sense of normality during a time of year when family would be most missed by those at […]
Advent Calendar: 14 December – Long walk in the snow
Photograph of the ‘Long Walk, St Andrews’ in snow in 1913. This image is from the papers of the Botany Department of the University of St Andrews which used to […]
Advent Calendar: 13 December – Reindeer
Illustration of a reindeer from one the engraved plates in Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia, a history of Northern Scandinavia and the Sami people. A noted Swedish humanist, Johannes Schefferus’ account of […]
Advent Calendar: 12 December – The Snowman
Photograph by local press photographer George Cowie of a young girl making a snowman, dated between 1925-1935 (GMC-EC-30-a). Making snowmen is a popular winter activity, which can be traced back […]
Advent Calendar: 11 December – Christmas Tree
Colour illustration of a Christmas tree from The Gift Book for all Seasons: A book of Instruction and Amusement for All Young People, 1860 (rper AP4.G5B6). While there has been […]
Advent Calendar: 10 December – Father Christmas
Illustration of Father Christmas “Up-to-Date” by the illustrator Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), published in the magazine Punch, ot the London Charivari, 26 December 1896 (per AP101.P8 Volume CXI). Tenniel was […]
Advent Calendar: 9 December – ‘Christmas Chants’
The Scottish folklorist Alexander Carmichael edited the songs, lore and poems of the Gaelic speaking regions of Scotland in the work Carmina Gadelica, 1900 (r PB1631.C2). Carmichael records that ‘Christmas […]
Advent Calendar: 8 December – Curling
Photograph of the beginning of a curling match between the Silver Foxes Curling Club, East Lothian and the Dundee Curling Club dated between 1925-1935, possibly at the Law Mill curling […]