Boxing Day

 

While a blizzard bears down on New England, Old England and its former Commonwealth colonies are celebrating Boxing Day, the traditional day-after-Christmas holiday.  Its exact origins are somewhat obscure, but it seems to have evolved from the pre-Reformation St. Stephen’s Day to an alms- and festivities-commencing holiday in the early modern and Victorian eras.  Cheers!

Boxing Day in Australia, 1914

 


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