Name: Arts Society Letchworth Talk - The Inventors Of Christmas !
Start: 2024-12-05T11:00:00Z
End: 2024-12-05T13:00:00Z

Everyone knows the ingredients of a traditional Christmas: the Christmas tree, pulling crackers, eating Christmas pudding and mince pies. Those last-minute cards sent to people you’ve not seen all year. These are the festive celebrations with which most of us grew up and they still hold a special magic as representing the timeless Christmases of days gone by.

But where did they start? This lecture looks at the characters and personalities of the people who began those traditions or introduced them to this country.

Alan Read has a masters and First-Class Honours degree in History of Art from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a gallery guide at Tate Britain and regularly lectures at both London Tates. For twenty years he was a gallery guide and lecturer at the National Portrait Gallery and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. He also works as a London Blue Badge Guide.

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Lectures are held at Broadway Cinema on the first Thursday of every month (except January and August) 11.00 am-12.15 pm. Visitors are welcome. The cost is £7. There is no need to book – just come to the lecture of your choice and pay at the box office.

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