Alex Lyons
@christmastorian.bsky.social
MRes at Birkbeck UoL. Studying the 'puritan Christmas ban' and origins of Father Christmas. Not Santa Claus. They are different dudes.
Each year I am unwrapped from tissue paper in November before being carefully placed in the attic on January 6th.
Each year I am unwrapped from tissue paper in November before being carefully placed in the attic on January 6th.
Looking for somewhere to eat in Newark, saw this plaque, did a double take, ordered the cheese on toast.
April 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Looking for somewhere to eat in Newark, saw this plaque, did a double take, ordered the cheese on toast.
Love that I saw 'Master Bates' as marginalia in a pamphlet I was looking at so thanks to the OED I now know that the verb 'to masturbate' originates in the 19th century.
April 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Love that I saw 'Master Bates' as marginalia in a pamphlet I was looking at so thanks to the OED I now know that the verb 'to masturbate' originates in the 19th century.
Took inspiration from the Bridgerton team for tonight's Georgian inspired outfit. Modern makeup, half arsed attempt at Gerogianish hair, dyes and patterns that wouldn't have existed and a mixture of daywrar and nightwear.
#nailedit
#Ayscoughfeehall
#nailedit
#Ayscoughfeehall
March 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Took inspiration from the Bridgerton team for tonight's Georgian inspired outfit. Modern makeup, half arsed attempt at Gerogianish hair, dyes and patterns that wouldn't have existed and a mixture of daywrar and nightwear.
#nailedit
#Ayscoughfeehall
#nailedit
#Ayscoughfeehall
My Christmas hot take of the year; they should refilm The Holiday except when Jude Law asks Cameron Diaz how she feels about foreplay she should slap him around the head and tell him that millenials deserves better than this and that Andrew Lincoln shit.
December 15, 2024 at 7:45 PM
My Christmas hot take of the year; they should refilm The Holiday except when Jude Law asks Cameron Diaz how she feels about foreplay she should slap him around the head and tell him that millenials deserves better than this and that Andrew Lincoln shit.
The first day of Advent and I am already deeply carried away.
The diet coke was supposed to be for scale but I guess it is highly on brand for him.
The diet coke was supposed to be for scale but I guess it is highly on brand for him.
December 1, 2024 at 2:48 PM
The first day of Advent and I am already deeply carried away.
The diet coke was supposed to be for scale but I guess it is highly on brand for him.
The diet coke was supposed to be for scale but I guess it is highly on brand for him.
I tweeted this in April and cannot remember anything about what the hell it meant. My only clue is that in April I was studying the 1650s. Bollocks.
November 24, 2024 at 5:59 PM
I tweeted this in April and cannot remember anything about what the hell it meant. My only clue is that in April I was studying the 1650s. Bollocks.
Love this wee fact.
Cannabis in 17th-century England grew freely in cornfields & roadsides. Good for earache, jaundice & ‘causeth hens to lay eggs more plentifully.’
November 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Love this wee fact.
I have some dubious #proofofcat
He is not dead
He is not dead
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 PM
I have some dubious #proofofcat
He is not dead
He is not dead
When they made this book into a movie they subverted the Santa Story to make him a cockney (Mel Smith in the English version) living in the suburbs. I can't think of any movies which have deviated from the established story (North Pole, Elves, reindeer, sleigh) in recent years.
Can you think of any?
Can you think of any?
December 16, 2023 at 4:24 PM
When they made this book into a movie they subverted the Santa Story to make him a cockney (Mel Smith in the English version) living in the suburbs. I can't think of any movies which have deviated from the established story (North Pole, Elves, reindeer, sleigh) in recent years.
Can you think of any?
Can you think of any?
Don't want to be that guy BUT one of the earliest references to Christmas was a complaint that it had lost its meaning.
Complaining that it's not what it used to be is older than Christmas trees, Mince Pies (with meat in) and Noddy Holder.
www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas/20...
Complaining that it's not what it used to be is older than Christmas trees, Mince Pies (with meat in) and Noddy Holder.
www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas/20...
18 ways the middle classes have ruined Christmas
The days of nativity plays and paper chains are long gone – say hello to Elf on a Shelf, dressed up dogs and far, far too much Michael Bublé
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 14, 2023 at 6:42 PM
Don't want to be that guy BUT one of the earliest references to Christmas was a complaint that it had lost its meaning.
Complaining that it's not what it used to be is older than Christmas trees, Mince Pies (with meat in) and Noddy Holder.
www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas/20...
Complaining that it's not what it used to be is older than Christmas trees, Mince Pies (with meat in) and Noddy Holder.
www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas/20...