• Cancelling Christmas and the Plum Pudding Riots

  • May 11 2017
  • Length: 13 mins
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Cancelling Christmas and the Plum Pudding Riots

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    In 1647, the new puritan government tried to cancel Christmas.

    People in Canterbury protested in a peculiarly English way, with a destructive game of football followed by a mass brawl.

    The city’s Plum Pudding Riots led to a royalist revolt throughout Kent and the second round of the Civil War.

    With Parliamentary armies fighting in Wales and Scotland, could this have marked a revival in fortunes for the beleaguered King Charles the First?

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    Music credits

    The theme music is Newsroom by Riot.

    The other music featured in this episode was Air Hockey Saloon by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com) and Sacred Motion by staRpauSe (http://starpause.flavors.me/). Both are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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