"The British celebration starts Christmas day, and it's 12 whole days of celebrating," said said the Rev. Carl Turner, rector of Saint Thomas Anglican Church in New York.

And these days, it's Santa to many British children — who have learned about our Dutch-American Santa Claus from TV and the movies. The original Father Christmas was something different. Related ...

An American expat living in London has shared her shock after attending her first ever British office Christmas party. The 42-year-old, who wished to remain anonymous, works in management in the ...

Here are 18 British Christmas traditions that might surprise you. Pantomimes, or "pantos," are plays performed around Christmastime in the UK. Pantomime dames playing the role of the Ugly Sisters ...

An American Christmas: ... Also, it would be wrong to suggest that there is a particular ‘British’ tradition that must be preserved at all costs: British culture is a complex, ...

British aristocrat Lord Michael Ashcroft defended the centuries-old tradition of wishing people a "happy Christmas" after bureaucrats told staff at one university to avoid using the word ...

And American efforts to recreate a traditional British Christmas pudding, made with dried fruit, rum and molasses, resulted in the modern fruitcake, according to Davison.

In 1906, a new carol appeared in “The English Hymnal,” an influential collection of British church music. With words by British poet Christina Rossetti, set to a tune by composer Gustav Holst ...

Listen and I’ll tell you a Christmas story. Let me tell you what Dickens was really trying to tell us. This is not a story the greedy Grinches want you to know. But it is an American story. And ...

“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 ...