please hurry as this is homework in for tommorrow and there is absolute zilch on this subject.
2006-10-01 07:25:28 · 5 answers · asked by Cookie Monster 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
sorry its not much all i could find might help u out a bit http://www2.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/inhouse/thisischristmas/christmasstory.shtml
2006-10-01 07:31:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
OK, here goes.The Edwardian era lasted from 1901 to 1910, though I'm sure you already know that.
Christmas was not commercialised as it is today, and children weren't swamped in toys back then! They had Christmas trees, of course, with fragile and pretty glass tree ornaments (I still have one of my father's, shaped like a building with a clock. He was born in 1907). When I was a child in the 1940s we used his old tree year after year. No fairy lights I'm afraid - but candles (a bit like birthday cake ones) in tiny metal holders fixed to the branches. What a fire hazard!
Father Christmas would have visited the homes of those who could afford presents for their children, he sadly had to miss out the poverty stricken masses..... Children would have hung their stockings over the fireplace (no Santa sacks back then!). Sweets, nuts and fruit went into them, and of course a few toys.
Christmas Day was a special time, often starting with a church service in the morning followed by a good dinner. Not sure about turkey, so don't quote me on this one! But certainly Christmas pudding, which had tiny silver threepenny bits put in it during the cooking, which the children loved to find.
No TV, no Queen's speech, but most households still had pianos which people could actually play, and the family would gather round the piano and sing carols. And I'm sure there would be games, of course.
That's all I can think of at the moment but I hope it helps!
So, as it's 2nd October and the shops are already full of tinsel, cards and lights, I'll wish you a very merry Christmas!
2006-10-02 06:28:16 · answer #2 · answered by Songbird 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Edwardian Christmas: continued and extended the custom of sending Christmas cards to people they hadn't communicated with since the previous Christmas. Cut down pine trees and decorated them with Kitsch. Over ate, probably got gout as a result and made their servants work over the festive days, thereby separating them from their families.
Do your own homework. Have you ever heard of books and libraries? To use the Internet, you have to have a little imagination.
You don't have to have a www address. Try typing in Edwardian Christmas.
I just tried it and got several sites. Be honest, you didn't even try.
2006-10-02 06:41:25 · answer #3 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All I can offer is: it was like a Victorian one only later, and like a George V one only earlier. (Or did you mean Edward VIII?) What a silly Q for homework, wasting your time... and mine.
2006-10-01 14:41:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you own homework, you will understand it better.
2006-10-05 06:37:00 · answer #5 · answered by newyorkgal71 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋