1903 Festivities
1903 Festivities
Episode 8 of the podcast is, of course, learning all about Christmas and Hogmanay festivities in 1903! We tackle head-on the historic reason why Christmas plays second fiddle to Hogmanay in Scotland (Christmas wasn’t even a public holiday until 1958.) We also ponder what Miss Cranston might have eaten for dinner, what she might have thought about creepy Victorian Christmas cards, marvel at the Dundonian Hogmanay tradition of dressing up herring in little outfits and learn how to cook swan!
DATE: 24.12.2021 | HOSTS/GUEST: Jodie Marshall & Isabella Scott | RUNNING TIME: 29mins
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Musical sting by Scott Twynholm
PHOTO ACCREDITATIONS
Frogs card: Tuck DB Ephemera
Boar’s Head and Swan recipe: Food History Jottings
Herring dressing: Dundee Courier
Shipbuilding: Media Scotland
Pickle: Why Christmas
First Footing: London Illustrated News
Turnip Xmas card: Alamy
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