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Detailed information about all U.S. So why does a three-part Christmas special of BBC Two’s popular historical documentary series Victorian Farm open with the summer hay harvest? According to presenter Alex Langlands, in fact the harvest was as integral to a happy Victorian Christmas as the communal village meal with all the trimmings. Telegraph.co.uk Wednesday 14 December 2016 Home Video News World Sport Business Money Comment Culture Travel Life Women Fashion Luxury Tech Film Film TV and Radio Books Music Comedy Art Theatre Photography Dance Opera Hay Festival Glyndebourne TV Guide TV Reviews BBC Game of Thrones Great British Bake Off X Factor Strictly Come Dancing Doctor Who Advertisement Home Culture TV and Radio Victorian Farm Special - the birth of Christmas as we know it The presenters of historical documentary series Victorian Farm tell Matt Warman about the Christmas edition of the series Victorian Farm Christmas: Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn at a reconstruction of a Victorian Christmas feastPhoto: BBC By Matt Warman 7:32PM GMT 09 Dec 2009 Whether it’s the Christmas trees imported from Prince Albert’s native Germany or the traditions of using decorative wrapping paper and shiny decorations, the Victorian era bequeathed us almost all of what we now think of as the clichs of Christmas. City-Data Forum > General Forums > Entertainment and Arts > TV Victorian Farm Christmas (show, episodes, 80's, friends) User Name Remember Me Password [Register] Search Forums Show Threads Show Posts Advanced Search Search Blogs Advanced Search Go to Page. The Acton Stott estate’s inhabitants still come together for a village carol service, with many of the participants direct descendants of those who attended in Victorian times. BBC iD BBC iD Settings Sign out Search term: BBC navigation News Sport Weather iPlayer TV Radio More… . “We actually try, so far as we can, to live as the Victorians would have done – and I can guarantee you no farmer would have been able to have a happy Christmas if he was worrying about whether the animals in the barn had enough to eat.” That hay harvest is, too, an iconic image of the last days of pre-industrial farming, and it reminds us that Christmas was an integral part of the Victorian agricultural year, rather than a peculiar event divorced from the daily grind. If there is one thing inseparable from a traditional Victorian Christmas, it is the Christmascracker. He decided to make a log shaped package that would produce a surprise bang and inside would be an almond and a motto. The idea of wearing a paper crown may have originated from the Twelfth Night celebrations, where a King or Queen was appointed to look over the proceedings. It was also found that the twisting of the paper could be much more quickly and tightly done with a string than with the fingers. As Langlands says, “When so many places have become commuter villages, maybe the Victorian idea of people coming together for Christmas shouldn’t be all nostalgia.” Victorian Farm Christmas begins on Friday on BBC Two at 9.00pm TV and Radio Christmas Culture Editor's Choice TV guide: UK listings On TV tonight: Back in Time for the Weekend The 80 best films on Netflix Films on TV tonight Related Partners Love puzzles? Get the best at Telegraph Puzzles Top Galleries Tom Hanks: the iconic roles Film Tom Hanks's varied career includes playing detectives, gay lawyers, castaways, cartoon cowboys and gangsters. BBC links Terms of Use About the BBC Privacy Contact the BBC Cookies BBC The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. How they only got six episodes out of that year, I don't know, but I watched every one of them! Then come to learn they did another one last year called Edwardian Farm with 12 episodes! That's what I'm watching now. In the early days each confectioner bought his own materials and made his own crackers. It is rumoured that even the Queen wears her paper hat over lunch! So why this quaint tradition? Where do these paper hats come from? The answer is the Christmas Cracker. Naturally, this show won't appeal to most people, but, for those who enjoy simplicity and have a bit of old-fashioned, traditional charm inside themselves, it's a beautiful respite that will give you a few ideas as to how you can bring an old-fashioned Christmas to your friends and family. Jim, Cecil Rhodes, and other South African celebrities, were all the rage. 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