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A Welsh Christmas and New Year
- BBC Wales provides a guide to Welsh Christmas and New Year customs, including audio clips. Covers Mari Lwyd, taffy making, calennig and plygain.
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BBC Food: Christmas
- Features Christmas cookery videos, planning and shopping lists, original ideas for leftovers, festive recipes and suggestions for making edible gifts.
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BBC Good Food: The Christmas Kitchen
- Presents Christmas cookery features including planning tools, make ahead dishes, low fat Christmas recipes and ideas for home made edible gifts.
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Christie and Phil's Perfect Christmas
- Catch up with episodes from this Channel 4 show, featuring great home made Christmas ideas. Also features recipes, how-tos and a "rate my Christmas decorations" gallery.
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Christmas
- Offers information about this years top selling Christmas gifts ideas.
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Christmas Eve Traditions
- Offers a selection of ideas which families can turn into their own Christmas Eve traditions.
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Christmas is Coming
- Contains Christmas decorating ideas, crafts, poems, carols and stories, with hints and tips for family harmony over the festive period.
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Christmas Markets
- Presents a directory of Christmas markets in the UK and Europe.
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Christmas Number Ones
- Provides a list of every UK Christmas Number One single from 1945 to date.
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The Christmas Resistance Movement
- A group who boycott Christmas shopping, decorations, cards, holidays and other consumerist manifestations. Provides stickers, posters, cartoons and other resources.
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The Christmas Truce
- Research project which aims to document what really happened during the World War I Christmas Truce in 1914, by transcribing the letters of those who took part. Includes many letters, soldier biographies and information on how to get involved.
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Delia Online: Delia's Christmas Recipes
- Features Delia Smith's collection of Christmas recipes, from accompaniments and side orders right through to deserts and leftovers.
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Different Christmas
- Encourages people to buy less this Christmas and to donate the money they have saved to a good cause.
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History of the RI Christmas Lectures
- Contains an archive of Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution.
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Index of Christmas Traditions and Customs
- Provides an outline of the history behind some of our favourite British Christmas traditions.
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Karaoke Carols
- Presents a fun online tool where words and music are provided to ten different carols, for the user to sing along.
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National Museum of Wales: Plygain Singing
- Offers information on the traditional Welsh custom of attending a special Plygain church service in the very early hours of Christmas morning.
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The Nativity Factor
- Competition which invites people to submit short videos celebrating the story of the nativity in the most creative way.
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The Natwivity
- Twitter and Facebook project which tells a humorous version of the nativity in 140 characters or less each day.
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Paperless Christmas
- Presents the nativity story in ten different episodes.
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The Queen's Christmas Broadcasts to the Commonwealth
- Official site covering the Christmas Day message delivered by the monarch to the people of the UK and the Commonwealth almost every year; includes a history, and texts.
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Ready, Steady, Slow
- Presents a series of inspirational advent video clips from the Church of England.
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Shelter Santa Cam
- In return for a donation to the homeless charity Shelter, parents can arrange a personalised video message from Santa to their child.
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Taste of Christmas
- Annual Christmas food exhibition event held in London. Includes information on cooking workshops, celebrity chef appearances and exhibitors.
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Ten Ages of Christmas
- Explores the growth and change in British Christmas festivities from medieval times to the post-war period.
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Video Jug: Christmas
- Feautures user and expert contributed video clip tutorials and ideas; topics covered include Christmas crafts, Christmas with a conscience, Santa and festive food and drink.
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Your Rights: Christmas Issues
- Provides guidance from the TUC on worker's rights over the Christmas period.
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