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The rude and the profane – how Christmas carols from ages past can brighten this bleak midwinter

Christmas is going to have its job cut out to enliven the bleak midwinter of 2020. Out of concern for public health, festive celebrations are going to be circumscribed by the toughest government imposed regulations since the killjoy, Bible-bashing Puritans tried to ban Christmas observances altogether in the mid-seventeenth century.