Christmas decorations are typically put up on Advent Sunday (Image: Getty Images) According to Wedgewood, the putting up of Christmas decorations traditionally starts on Advent Sunday, the fourth ...

A woman has shared the unusual reason she takes her Christmas decorations down a lot sooner than most people – there's a very ...

Christmas decorations are usually taken down well after the New Year, but for one woman, the cleaning up starts a lot sooner ...

Long before Santa Claus, caroling, and light-strewn Christmas trees, people in medieval Europe celebrated the Christmas season with 12 full days of feasting and revelry. Christmas in the Middle Ages ...

Wrapping gifts, placing them under trees and opening them on Christmas Day are a relatively modern invention — in early medieval times, some Christian rulers thought that the story of the three ...

Not a fan of over-the-top decorations? This Christmas trends celebrates the beauty and tranquility of nature, bringing the calm and simplicity of the outdoors inside with wooden decorations ...

A remarkable account of medieval Christmas celebrations can be found in an English letter dated to Christmas Eve 1459. It was written by Margaret Paston, a wealthy Norfolk gentlewoman, landowner ...

Holly and ivy are traditional rivals in the forest, representing masculine and feminine traits respectively, and they have been customary Christmas decorations since the late medieval period.