The carol didn’t become widely popular until the 20th century, when Richard Runciman Terry arranged it in the 1930s. A more ...

From live worship, music, carols and spiritual contemplation, here's your guide to religious programmes across TV and radio ...

"Angels We Have Heard on High," "Silent Night," even "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town," instantly arouses thoughts of Christmas ...

(WHTM) – Christmas brings Santa, cookies, decorations/lights, gifts, time with family, and Christmas Carols. Christmas Carols originated in 129 AD with “Angels Hymn,” according to Classic FM. Classic ...

No fictional Christmas story from English literature has been produced in so many versions on stage, in film, or on television as the Charles Dickens 1843 novella “A Christmas Carol.“ In television ...

Do you know what bobtails and wassailing are? We have experts explain the meaning of those weird Christmas carol lyrics. Many of our most popular holiday songs are from the 19th century, when ...

Everyone knows "A Christmas Carol." What everyone doesn't know, now, is that Dickens' 1843 tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts was just the first in a series of annual holiday books. "The Chimes," ...

You probably know all the words to "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," but have you ever wondered why the same lyrics that "wish you a Merry Christmas" also demand "some figgy pudding"? Or why riding in ...

Unique, brilliant, and enchanting are the words this reviewer uses to describe the production of A Christmas Carol currently running at Malvern-based theatre People’s Light (39 Conestoga Road, Malvern ...

"The Wassail Bowl," printed in The Illustrated London News on Dec. 22, 1860. Going door to door and offering a song or performance in exchange for a drink or money is a centuries-old English custom.