Visit Heritage Blog (December 2023) - Visit Heritage

We’ve covered some of the forgotten Christmas traditions, so it only seems right to look at some of the forgotten New Year traditions from the UK. Would you incorporate any of these into your New Year celebrations.

Christmas traditions might vary from family to family, but you generally know what to expect from your dinner: big roast, usually turkey, followed by Christmas pudding and mince pies, but was this always the case?
We’ve taken a trip through time to find out what Christmas dinner looked like throughout history.

Historic England is celebrating the end of 2023 by recognising the 16 heritage sites added to the National Heritage List for England over the past year.

If you’ve put up your tree and got the stockings out, then you are likely settling down for a traditional Christmas but have you ever considered the traditions that have fallen out of fashion?