Episode 8

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