Our favourite Christmas film...
It's A Wonderful Life
The Holly King - one of our blogs on Winter Wizards
You can read about the character here
Mummers Plays
I'm enjoying delving into mummer's plays and the costumes for Father Christmas.
The BFI have a great film of mummers performing back in 1981
Book Recommendations
The Krampus and the Old Dark Christmas - Al Ridenhour
The host of Bone and Sickle podcast with a stunning investigation of the Krampus and other winter alpine folklore.
Bad Santas and other Creepy Christmas Characters - Paul Hawkins
Creepy winter folklore characters from around Europe.
You can hear our podcast with Paul here.
The Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow - Jackie Morris
Filled with magical poetry and wonderful imaginative images and flushes of exotic fairytales. This is a very special book.
