SNV Holiday Special Report 2022

HOLIDAY Special Report (12/29/22) (Picture: A mosaic along the Surrey Diggers Trail, Cobham UK) Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas? In this Special Report we touch on a number of events from England in the 1640s. These events include the English Civil War, the ban on Christmas festivities and the True Levelers digging up St. George's Hill. Links to items discussed in this Holiday Special Report: Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas?: https://www.cromwellmuseum.org/cromwell/did-oliver-cromwell-ban-christmas The World Turned Upside Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eSGMlxx5I Socialist Outlook August 1993: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialist-outlook-isg/series-1/Socialist%20Outlook%20no47%20August%201993.pdf Gerrard Winstanley, the Diggers' Manifesto, 1649 | Radical Political Ideas and the English Civil War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pRT0RWridc The True Levellers Standard Advanced: Or, The State of Community Opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men.: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/winstanley/1649/levellers-standard.htm World Turned Upside Down - Leon Rosselson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCXnol8NGbg The World Turned Upside Down - Billy Bragg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWRpl2S9iwk