For centuries, Christmas was basically cancelled in Scotland. In 1560, during the Scottish Reformation, Scotland broke away from the Catholic Church. Christmas started being seen as a Catholic festival and slowly lost its importance. Then in 1640, it became official. The Parliament of Scotland banned Christmas. No public holiday. No church celebrations. Just a normal working day. And this wasn’t for a few years. This went on for centuries, right into the 1800s. But people still wanted a winter c

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