What would have happened if the Victorians had failed to turn Christmas into a family holiday? Would it have been suppressed?
what was it before it was a family holiday- a public drunkenness by adult men holiday?
"what was it before it was a family holiday- a public drunkenness by adult men holiday?"
This is actually what it was before the Vcitorians got a hold of it.
This was part of the general clean-up of morals by the Victorians, so maybe I got ahead of myself. Maybe the way to keep Christmas the way it was is to get rid of the whole Victorian thing entirely. My guess is that this was tied to the industrial revolution, and the need to get workers to report to their factory shifts on time and sober. Leisure time for workers was also greatly cut back. But no industrial revolution means big changes.
An alternative is that they manage to get rid of Christmas entirely, like they did with all the saints' days, instead of co-opting it.
what was it before it was a family holiday- a public drunkenness by adult men holiday?
Isn't that pretty much 'Saturday night' now?That sounds pretty great. Let's bring that back.![]()
Isn't that pretty much 'Saturday night' now?![]()