There are some Christmas traditions in England that might confuse people from the US. Some folks in the UK celebrate Christmas with pantomime, a campy, family-friendly theater show. Christmas pudding, ...

The best way to begin your very English Christmas is to walk in the footsteps of Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly character out of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, who renewed old festive traditions ...

People have many different Christmas traditions. In fact, 94% of Brits say they will have a traditional Christmas meal on ...

A quarter of festive Brits are shunning traditions like satsumas in stockings (40%), and Christmas carolling (38%) – in favour of starting “new” traditions, such as homemade presents, or staying in ...

Leaving out cookies for Santa, carolling in the snow, and drinking hot cocoa are all familiar ways to herald the Christmas season. But what about hiding pickles, telling ghost stories, or crowning a ...

Tesco spreads Christmas joy by providing free food and drink at 165 pop-ups across the UK. Locate your nearest, as it's the ...

Christmas is a season for traditions – special rituals that help tie us to Christmases past and bring rhythm and seasonality into our lives. For me, the season begins each year when I open an old ...

Figgy pudding need not apply. This season, think beyond holiday movie marathons and reintroduce Christmas traditions from years gone by that are bound to make this season extra merry and bright.

Every year, families who celebrate Christmas decorate their tree and hang stockings in anticipation of the arrival of Santa Claus. But what does this have to do with the religious holiday itself?

On a Saturday afternoon several weeks before Christmas, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., is just waiting for snow. Every lamppost has been wrapped in pine boughs; every gingerbread gable is garlanded with ...