Essential Reading

'I have been a family historian for more than 40 years, and a professional historian for over 30, but as I read it, I was constantly encountering new ways of looking at my family history....Essential reading I would say!' Alan Crosby, WDYTYA Magazine

Friday, 22 December 2017

Ancestors' Advent Calendar: Dec 22nd: Create a Christmas 'Circle of Glee'!

While the Christmas Log is Burning!


WISEMAN, James Foster Turner from James Harris,  Logs for the Christmas Fire. A selection of tales ... in prose and verse, riddles, charades, ... jokes, etc, (1876) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36539251

 



Hail to the night when we gather once more
All the forms we love to meet;
When we've many a guest that's dear to our breast:
And the household dog at out feet.
Who would not be in the circle of glee; 
When heart to heart is yearning -
When joy breathes out in the laughing about
While the Christmas log is burning!

Eliza Cook

County Express; Brierley Hill, Stourbridge, Kidderminster, and Dudley News, 25th December, 1869

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