Forget the Grinch, Oliver Cromwell and his Puritans really DID steal Christmas - and abolished it for 16 joyless years. It didn't go well...

Just imagine Christmas being banned. No carols, no holly, no ivy - and definitely no pantos.
Yet that's just what happened when King Charles I lost his throne back in the 17th century.

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