Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pantos—short for pantomimes—are a quintessential British holiday tradition. These musical comedy shows are loosely based around a ...

With Christmas only a few weeks away, we have a feeling you'll be getting yourself and your home ready for the big day. From shopping for gifts, to decorating the tree, there's plenty to do before ...

If you call him "Father Christmas" instead of Santa Claus, you just might be from the United Kingdom. Christmas in the UK differs slightly from celebrations in America and elsewhere around the world.

In the closing weeks of every year, newspapers speculate, DJs postulate, talking heads chat on TV and bookkeepers offer odds over the U.K.’s Christmas No. 1 single. It’s been that way for nearly five ...

“Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.” So mutters Scrooge — who didn't keep it at all. But he wasn't wrong. We don't all keep Christmas the same way. Britain is where "A ...

While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first Christmas card’s design was actually influenced by other, older British holiday ...

Leave it to the British royal family to have a unique approach to opening Christmas gifts. They don’t simply open presents at their annual holiday get-together in the English countryside. No, it’s a ...

Although it legally isn't Christmas until you have heard that Mariah Carey song or watched Love, Actually, it kind of is time to get watching all of those iconic Christmas movies. After all, there ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, not a creature was stirring... apart from the countless logistics firms frantically unpacking delayed shipping containers in order to ...