"Cancelling Christmas and the Plum Pudding Revolution" Topic
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| Tango01 | 27 Mar 2026 1:49 p.m. PST |
"In 1647, the new puritan government tried to cancel Christmas. In 1647, the new puritan government tried to cancel Christmas. People in Canterbury protested in a peculiarly English way with a destructive game of football. The city's Plum Pudding Riots led to a royalist revolt and the second round of the Civil War. On 21 May 1648, 10,000 royalists gathered on moorland outside Maidstone in Kent. They were just 35 miles or a day's hard march from a largely undefended London. A new phase of the English Civil War was about to begin…"
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 John the OFM  | 27 Mar 2026 3:11 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 27 Mar 2026 5:12 p.m. PST |
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is a big fan of the Age of Sail, and these ships really speak to him - he loves transitional eras, and the Anglo-Dutch Wars was one of those.
