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Ivan Roots surveys the historiography of the Cromwellian régime.
Not so long ago it could be said with some truth that the Interregnum, 1649 to 1660, or roughly the 1650s, was a neglected decade. Specialists of the early Stuarts, peddling notions that the period saw the Great Rebellion, the Puritan Revolution, the English Revolution or whatever, tended to lose interest in the late 1640s with the ending of the Civil Wars, the petering out of the revolution – if indeed there was a revolution – and the apparent dissipation of the heady atmosphere of the years between the assembly of the Long Parliament and the execution of Charles I. Those devoted to the later Stuart era, fixing their eyes on that other revolution, the sensible or Glorious one of 1688-9, generally took as their starting point the Restoration of 1660 with Charles II safely and surely back on the throne.
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David Teniers the Younger,
The Twelve Days of Christmas No. 8, 1634-40
These days, British and American Christmases are by and large the same hodgepodge of tradition, with relatively minor variations. This Christmas Eve, for example, when millions of American kids put out cookies and milk for Santa, children in Britain will lay out the more adult combination of mince pies and brandy for the old man many of them know as Father Christmas. For the last hundred years or so, Father Christmas has been indistinguishable from the American character of Santa Claus; two interchangeable names for the same white-bearded pensioner garbed in Coca-Cola red, delivering presents in the dead of night. But the two characters have very different roots. Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children, was given his role of nocturnal gift-giver in medieval Netherlands. Father Christmas, however, was no holy man, but a personification of Dionysian fun: dancing, eating, late-night drinking and the subversio