Why did Oliver Cromwell abolish Christmas?

A few months earlier, parliament's New Model Army, led by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, had routed the forces of Charles I at the battle of ... read more

Oliver Cromwell led the parliamentarian forces against the royalist forces in the English Civil War, and now that Cromwell and the British public had taken back control they were free to do whatever Cromwell said. read more

It is a common myth that Cromwell personally ‘banned’ Christmas during the mid seventeenth century. read more

Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire in 1599, and was Member of Parliament for the town for a year (1628-29). Today the statue of him that looks down on the townspeople of nearby St Ives, where he lived from 1631 to 1636, is listed at Grade II in recognition of his importance as a renowned local and national figure. read more