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Originally posted by Sticks
Ye Gads 
I thought someone would pick up the historical connection between this time of year and Oliver Cromwell.
It was his puritan regime that banned and outlawed Christmas and passed a lot of anti-Christmas legislation, some of which, like the ban on eating mince pies was never repealed
BTW I did ask once and the Home office said that none of his laws was recognised after the restoration of the monarchy
Are there any historians on the board? 
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I'm doing History A-Level and know quite a lot about that period of time (I should, I half my A-Level riding on 1639-1650, but I didn't realize that was your specific point.