I gre up in a very poor family in the early sixties and my dad passed away when i was 7. I can remember always going to bed early on xmas eve and hanging a sock over the fireplace, waking up on xmas morning to see my sock full of goodies. Nuts, satsumas, etc. I was always glad to get these presents and we were always gratefull for whatever we got. Ialso think that in todays world if we used socks for the kids today they would think it was a trick or their parents just playing around. Now i am much older i often think like Scrooge when he gors back in time to visit his school in the past etc. Hard times i had but looking at it today it wasnt so bad. We always carried on. Thank you again Kevin
It is easier to accept what life throws at you when you can get past hardships like this. I had a similar childhood and I was always happy with what my parents could provide, and I understood why they couldn't provide more. To this day I still stress over spending money on large purchases. Even when the item is a tool that will pay for itself, I have to justify to myself that I really need it. In fact I still lament purchases that I didn't make in the past. Growing up poor made me a better person. I have a friend who struggles because she has to do more for her children than was done for her as a child. She still Buys her adult children expensive Christmas gifts at the expense of not paying bills or maintaining her vehicle that she relies on for her 40 mile daily work commute. She had a good childhood, though she doesn't see it that way. She's more of a materialistic person, growing up in the 80's and 90's she had very nice clothes, just not the designer brands. I wanted nice things too and when I got my first job I bought my first pair of Reebok's, because even withmy own job I couldn't afford Nike.
My mom encouraged me to tack a winter sock on the top edge of the wainscoting in our living room. (We didn't have a fireplace, but we did have gas grates, which were, of course, not good places to hang "stockings" from!) It was a nice surprise on Christmas morning to find tangerines or clementines, walnuts and pecans, and a small trinket from Woolworth's, such as a magnet set shaped like circus animals and clowns. Even as a four year old, I loved being at the Christmas Eve service at our beautifully greened and decorated church. Wishing you and your folks a merry and blessed Christmas!
I got some little magnets that looked like scotty dogs, one white and one black! My brother got a tiny metal car with rubber wheels, and we always got a mix of nuts and either an apple or an orange. For little kids that was still really fun!
In Finnish words "christmas" (joulu) and "party" (juhla) both come from the word "Jule", so it's kinda funny to me when we have big communal christmas parties it's "joulujuhla" which is like "jule-jule". Nowadays in Finland it's traditional to prepare a big big pork in the oven night before christmas eve for the christmas eve dinner and it's so big that everyone can go and get a piece any time they feel there's some opening in the stomach through the holidays. It's only 100-150 years old tradition though after people got more wealthy (nowadays most of the christmas pork comes fom Denmark and salmon from Norway), before the christmas eve dinner was fish dishes from local lake and sea fish species and preserved foods, both with influences from Swedish and Russian cousines and those foods carry on to this day, though slowly losing ground.
As I’m now 70, and as a child we weren’t poor, just middle income people, frugal. Thinking back now, I’d say that I remember my mother singing and grandmother cooking. Happy to have had both parents, grandparents love and clean clothes. I can close my eyes and hear my mother singing Thank you Kevin. Merry Christmas to everyone, from near St. Louis Missouri
Best memories! I think of my mother and grandmother every time I bake, they are with us! Kindest wishes from a Yorkshire woman now living in Scotland 🙏🏼❤️🏴🐈⬛
Cheers Kev, a perfect accompaniment for my medieval theme where on Christmas morning I will don my stockings, take up thy lute and delight my kindred with yule and lore, much to their bemusement. Happy Christmas to you and your lady :)
The fact that it's chocolate wins me over! I've actually never had one. I'm a 63F, and have cancer. Hmm, maybe I can ask for one as a "pity" Christmas gift! Haha! Whatever works!😂
Merry Christmas Kevin 🎅 love your channel as a child in the 50s we were ecstatic to get anything a paint box ,a tracing book a Selection stocking and one main toy like a tea set or cheap doll ,but l thank every day for what my parents did for their 7 children they worked so hard
Awe, bless you. It's the first time I'm going over to Merry Old tomorrow to meet my boyfriend's family and friends. My flight's tomorrow, and I knew Christmas in the UK was different, but this made it just a little more special 🥰
Good Luck to you on your meeting them. It'll go great! Just read embarrassing stories from people of when they first met their partner's family...and don't do that! Haha!😂 Merry Christmas! 🎄
I live in a shared house and have a Moldovan housemate who trying one of my Christmas "MINCEMEAT" pies was quite taken aback to find they were filled with alcohol steeped fruit. He suggested that he thought they were minced beef or lamb. He'd never tried one before, but I've since noticed that he has purchased two boxes from Asda (Walmart) Merry Christmas to you Kev and fellow viewers!! 🧑🎄 🥳
Speaking of traditions, waking up on Saturday mornings and watching a History Squad video is quickly becoming a new tradition. Merry Christmas from your neighbour in MB
What an absolute boster of a post this is. I really enjoyed it, and coming from the Black Country myself, the customs are very traditional and nostalgic for me. The sort of things we enjoyed as nippers now can still resonate in adulthood with fond memories. Please keep bringing your bostin posts, as we say them om a gud un ay thay mar mucca.
In55i recall early Christmases,where the old ornaments came out of attic or shed storage,sto king filled with walnuts,pecans,brazil nuts,orange,fruit,hard candy,a pine tree from woods,big old light bulbs on tree,homemade ornament fro. Melted mardi gras beads in oven,miss those days
That's a great idea to use Mardi Gras beads. We'd cut up soda cans with Christmas images and bend back the sharp sides. Then take Elmer's liquid glue and put glitter in it. Sometimes would melt crayons over the edges. ❤
In Denmark we call Christmas Eve for juleaften ( jule evening ) and Santa Claus is jule manden ( jule man ). I hope you and your family have a lovely Christmas kev, you have brought much entertainment in my home through the year 😊
My parents in the Midwestern US often speak of the great Blizzard of 1978. They said it was a complete white out. Could barely see your hand in front of your face. When I was a kid one of the worst snow storms in my lifetime occurred when I was about 12 or 13. It was so bad, they canceled all holiday school productions and we got out of school a few days early for Winter break. Have a wonderful holiday season, my fellow history friends!! ❤
A very Happy Christmas and Yuletide to you and yours. I wish a happy and prosperous New Years to you all as well. Keep calm and keep ‘em coming! Cheers from Oregon!
Back to a model. Now that’s the Kevie we all know and love. Merry Christmas to you and your family kevie. Anyone reading this merry Christmas to you too my brother or sister.
I remember getting nuts, fruit and hard Christmas candy (that I thought tasted like medicine). Later on, when it was my turn to do up the stockings, I filled them with things like toothbrushes, toothpaste, deorderant and maybe some bathsalts. I am glad that my daughter has carried on in the same manner. I always enjoy and look forward to your posts. Merry Christmas 🎄 🇨🇦
Wishing you, your family, and staff a very blessed Christmas! Thank you for the superb videos; your hard work is appreciated more than you can imagine! ❤
Today on the Solcitice were taking Donny out to gather greenery like ivy, holy, and evergreen and we decorate the whole house with it. Were also having some friends over for dinner and as Terry Pratchett fans, we are calling it Hogswatch :D My own reenactment group puts on a feast every year in January; Winter Revel and a friend of mine is in charge of it and she has recruited me for the team and guess what? the Yule Log is something i am in charge of becuase of the woods we have. Besides measuring it, the log also has to be green and recently cut. Not just so it burns slower but in the pagan context it has to have the sap of life still within it so you bring that new life and new spring into your home. I hope you, Julie and Rupurt all have a very Merry Christmas. I know Donny, as the most recent baby in my family, is going to be getting so much candy and so much love he will be on a sugar crash till after New Years. 😂
😂 how lovely, so your friend is the Lady of Misrule. We do miss that greenery, back in England we also used to collect holly and Ivy to decorate. Best wishes to the whole family.
Hi Kev, I have fond memories of The Yule Log on TV. WGN out of Chicago would play Christmas favorites while the TV screen was a burning fireplace from 1am to 5am. Many times, I would come home late on Christmas Eve and fall asleep to The Yule Log burning. Love your stories all year round. Merry Christmas to You and Yours.🎄
Wishing you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas from Oregon! Just finished making a double batch of old fashioned fudge for our Christmas get together.
You are a man of many hats, and you wear them all well! Always a pleasure to listen to your stories. Happy Christmas to you and yours, and a happy holiday to all of you out there!
Greetings once again from Nova Scotia, thanks Kevin, that was beautiful. You really took me back to when I was a kid. You also taught where/when some of my favorite things about Christmas came from. All the best for all of yours. God bless, merry Christmas.
The nuts and fruit was a big thing in the American south to. My aunt that was born in 1921 said it was a tradition that went back to her grandparents in the family at least from the storys she had heard. And the oranges and Satsuma was a really big deal. And my family been in Florida on that side since the early 1800s. She talked about her dad getting brizil nuts and true walnuts. Compared to blackwalnuts, hickory nuts, pecan and butter nuts that grew on the farm.
I remember, as a boy, sitting with my father at the kitchen table on Christmas Day, cracking and eating walnuts from our stockings. Good times! Thank you for your great videos, Kevin. And a Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones! 😊
Merry Christmas to you and your family, and Happy New Year. I have six ornaments from my parents first Christmas in 1953. I treasure these. I wasn’t going to decorate this year, as I lost my husband of 44 years right before Christmas last year. But I did and it is beautiful, my little tree and presents for my son, daughter in love and my two precious grandchildren. My two dogs don’t seem to care either way. Thank you for all the work you put in to the videos. ❤️from Texas
I returned to London back in 1999, to teach in East Ham, already we were not aloud to do Christmas carols, a concert or decorate our classes. Most of the teachers were from Australia New Zealand and South Africa, I from Canada where my classes had been very multicultural. I was horrified and then in January another day became a holiday!! Thank you Kevin for giving time and meaning to the roots of tradition and the history of Christmas. Happy Christmas 🎉
Merry Christmas Kevin May it be filled with love and joy! Your videos this past year have brought to me a great deal of joy thank you for all that you do sir!
Thank you for this contemplation of Christmas traditions. So entertaining, and satisfying for us history buffs.🙂 I think I'm especially fond of the story about Christmas stockings. Very heartwarming.❤ Of course, I can't leave out how special people gathering together is. How Christmas tradition distinctly includes that. As it should.❤️ Loved your mischievous laugh when explaining what the "coffin" part of the pastry is! That, when buried in one, WE are the coffin!😜 Just this morning I read a short article about how the British royals (who I love) celebrate their Christmas, and it sounds like their traditions pick up from the German side of their heritage. I've been to one midnight mass. I'm a non-denominational Christian and we're tucked in at home on Christmas Eve. One year I went to a Lutheran Church for theirs. Boy, what an event! Awe inspiring and beautiful! ✨Wishing the Hicks family a beautiful Christmas 🎄 and a prosperous, healthy 2025!✨
Been a rough Christmas at work since we are down 3 people. And can't go home for the holidays. But, I will admit this video put a smile on my face. Thank you, and Feliz Navidad.
Wonderful as usual. Thanks Hicks family for your hard work all year bringing us top quality content. Have a great Christmas and new year, hugs from the Everitt crew from outback Queensland Australia. 😊
Thank you so much for this lovely presentation. I live in America. Unfortunately, we are no longer allowed to have a Nativity in schools. Sometimes it seems any religious ritual except Christianity is allowed, including Satanism. Your models are amazing and I love it when you tell stories. I can imagine sitting around a campfire listening to your stories. I'll bet you are a fantastic husband and father. Bless you and your family.
You are so full of crap Connie, American Christians are the ones hounding everyone you don't like because you pretend to care what the Bible says but only follow the rules you happen to like, and I bet if Kevin had read your full comment he would not have you on a campfire listening to his stories because he's an actual decent human being
Yes! I completely agree with you. I live in California. It bummed me out when Christmas became less and less in our schools. And you aren't kidding. Even satanism gets allowed.😤
@@cindys.9688 It's terrible, isn't it, that other people might possibly believe in something different to you, and religious freedom means that your religion isn't allowed to dominate all aspects of society. The fact that you used to be able to get away with unconstitutional acts in schools makes you feel persecuted today. You wouldn't feel like this now if your ancestors hadn't broken the law.
Another wonderful and informative video, thanks Kevin for all your efforts to keep us informed and entertained! . I especially enjoyed the pork pie thread . . Have a great Christmas and a very happy new year!
Grew up in 1960s America. We got nuts in their shells ( walnut, pecans, hazel nuts, brazil , almonds), tangerines or oranges, apple and hard candy in our stockings. It was special to get citrus fruits.
Happy Holidays Kev! Your videos truly are a gift. I love learning these things. It also gives me things to talk about at the dinner table with family on Christmas, so you've given me something more to gift to my family and friends.
Fantastic Video! I really did not know how much of our Christmas traditions go back to the Medieval Times. I wish you and your family a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
I gre up in a very poor family in the early sixties and my dad passed away when i was 7. I can remember always going to bed early on xmas eve and hanging a sock over the fireplace, waking up on xmas morning to see my sock full of goodies. Nuts, satsumas, etc. I was always glad to get these presents and we were always gratefull for whatever we got. Ialso think that in todays world if we used socks for the kids today they would think it was a trick or their parents just playing around. Now i am much older i often think like Scrooge when he gors back in time to visit his school in the past etc. Hard times i had but looking at it today it wasnt so bad. We always carried on. Thank you again Kevin
Beautiful comment. I agree with you. The fact that we're here now looking back, we can appreciate that we had *something* rather than nothing.
It is easier to accept what life throws at you when you can get past hardships like this. I had a similar childhood and I was always happy with what my parents could provide, and I understood why they couldn't provide more. To this day I still stress over spending money on large purchases. Even when the item is a tool that will pay for itself, I have to justify to myself that I really need it. In fact I still lament purchases that I didn't make in the past.
Growing up poor made me a better person.
I have a friend who struggles because she has to do more for her children than was done for her as a child. She still Buys her adult children expensive Christmas gifts at the expense of not paying bills or maintaining her vehicle that she relies on for her 40 mile daily work commute. She had a good childhood, though she doesn't see it that way. She's more of a materialistic person, growing up in the 80's and 90's she had very nice clothes, just not the designer brands. I wanted nice things too and when I got my first job I bought my first pair of Reebok's, because even withmy own job I couldn't afford Nike.
Thanks for sharing, have a nice Christmas
We used to have mums old tights. Could get quite a few oranges in there, and a couple of chocolate bars.
Absolutely! I agree!@@cindys.9688
My mom encouraged me to tack a winter sock on the top edge of the wainscoting in our living room. (We didn't have a fireplace, but we did have gas grates, which were, of course, not good places to hang "stockings" from!) It was a nice surprise on Christmas morning to find tangerines or clementines, walnuts and pecans, and a small trinket from Woolworth's, such as a magnet set shaped like circus animals and clowns. Even as a four year old, I loved being at the Christmas Eve service at our beautifully greened and decorated church. Wishing you and your folks a merry and blessed Christmas!
I got some little magnets that looked like scotty dogs, one white and one black! My brother got a tiny metal car with rubber wheels, and we always got a mix of nuts and either an apple or an orange. For little kids that was still really fun!
I must go out tomorrow for wine and will also add some oranges to my list. Got me reminiscent of the treats in our stockings. 😊🎄🎁
Merry Christmas to you and your family Mr. hicks, hope it’s amazing and filled with all the same joy you bring to us
Merry Christmas, Dash!
That’s very kind, thank you.
I agree - Kevin deserves the joy he gives to us.☺️
In Finnish words "christmas" (joulu) and "party" (juhla) both come from the word "Jule", so it's kinda funny to me when we have big communal christmas parties it's "joulujuhla" which is like "jule-jule".
Nowadays in Finland it's traditional to prepare a big big pork in the oven night before christmas eve for the christmas eve dinner and it's so big that everyone can go and get a piece any time they feel there's some opening in the stomach through the holidays. It's only 100-150 years old tradition though after people got more wealthy (nowadays most of the christmas pork comes fom Denmark and salmon from Norway), before the christmas eve dinner was fish dishes from local lake and sea fish species and preserved foods, both with influences from Swedish and Russian cousines and those foods carry on to this day, though slowly losing ground.
Wonderful, thanks for the knowledge.
Very interesting!😊
The word "jol" is still used in Afrikaans, meaning to make merry, play, paint the town red...
As I’m now 70, and as a child we weren’t poor, just middle income people, frugal.
Thinking back now, I’d say that I remember my mother singing and grandmother cooking. Happy to have had both parents, grandparents love and clean clothes.
I can close my eyes and hear my mother singing
Thank you Kevin.
Merry Christmas to everyone, from near St. Louis Missouri
I am near St Louis, too! Merry Christmas!
@@d.g.n9392 and to you from central PA!
Best memories!
I think of my mother and grandmother every time I bake, they are with us!
Kindest wishes from a Yorkshire woman now living in Scotland 🙏🏼❤️🏴🐈⬛
@@lauraellen189 Merry Christmas, to you as well
Cheers Kev, a perfect accompaniment for my medieval theme where on Christmas morning I will don my stockings, take up thy lute and delight my kindred with yule and lore, much to their bemusement. Happy Christmas to you and your lady :)
You're going to take his lute?!
Great idea...🤔
😂
Merry Christmas kevin!, love the channel!
Happy Christmas one & all
Yule log is my favourite Christmas cake! ❤
The fact that it's chocolate wins me over! I've actually never had one. I'm a 63F, and have cancer. Hmm, maybe I can ask for one as a "pity" Christmas gift! Haha! Whatever works!😂
Merry Christmas from Tennessee! Most of our Christmas traditions here originated in the British Isles. It's interesting to hear the history of them.
Merry Christmas, Kevin Hicks and family!
Merry Christmas chat!
Merry Christmas Fellow Chat Person!🎄
Wishing you and your family a happy, healthy, safe celebration.
Merry Christmas Kevin 🎅 love your channel as a child in the 50s we were ecstatic to get anything a paint box ,a tracing book a Selection stocking and one main toy like a tea set or cheap doll ,but l thank every day for what my parents did for their 7 children they worked so hard
How lovely 👍
KEVIN MADE A MODEL! GOD is in heaven and all is right in the world! Merry Christmas to Kevin and all his viewers!⛪
We ♥️ Kevin and his models! Happy day!😊
Haha, cheers Ray, glad you like them.
Ah hah. This is exactly the video I'm desiring starting my Christmas break!
Awe, bless you. It's the first time I'm going over to Merry Old tomorrow to meet my boyfriend's family and friends. My flight's tomorrow, and I knew Christmas in the UK was different, but this made it just a little more special 🥰
Good Luck to you on your meeting them. It'll go great!
Just read embarrassing stories from people of when they first met their partner's family...and don't do that! Haha!😂
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Hope you enjoy our merry olde Englalande!
Have a wonderful visit
It is 22 December 2024, the winter solstice where I'm at, and I only just discovered your channel.
Subscribed! And Merry Christmas!🎄🎄🎄🎄
Thank you! You too & welcome 👍
Ohh, you're in for a real treat friend . Kevin and this community is one of the most wholesome on the entire platform. Merry Christmas 🤶
@@Banned_Daily Merry Christmas 🎄🎄🎄🎄 Good to know. Wholesome RUclips niches are getting so hard to find these days 🍷
Thanks for this very interesting history on our Christmas. As an ex Soldier, I must say you are the most decent Military Policeman I’ve ever known.
I live in a shared house and have a Moldovan housemate who trying one of my Christmas "MINCEMEAT" pies was quite taken aback to find they were filled with alcohol steeped fruit. He suggested that he thought they were minced beef or lamb.
He'd never tried one before, but I've since noticed that he has purchased two boxes from Asda (Walmart)
Merry Christmas to you Kev and fellow viewers!! 🧑🎄 🥳
This should be interesting. I do love your models Kevin! X
Speaking of traditions, waking up on Saturday mornings and watching a History Squad video is quickly becoming a new tradition. Merry Christmas from your neighbour in MB
How lovely, thanks neighbour
What an absolute boster of a post this is. I really enjoyed it, and coming from the Black Country myself, the customs are very traditional and nostalgic for me. The sort of things we enjoyed as nippers now can still resonate in adulthood with fond memories. Please keep bringing your bostin posts, as we say them om a gud un ay thay mar mucca.
In55i recall early Christmases,where the old ornaments came out of attic or shed storage,sto king filled with walnuts,pecans,brazil nuts,orange,fruit,hard candy,a pine tree from woods,big old light bulbs on tree,homemade ornament fro. Melted mardi gras beads in oven,miss those days
That's a great idea to use Mardi Gras beads. We'd cut up soda cans with Christmas images and bend back the sharp sides. Then take Elmer's liquid glue and put glitter in it. Sometimes would melt crayons over the edges. ❤
Stringing popcorn and cranberries.
In Denmark we call Christmas Eve for juleaften ( jule evening ) and Santa Claus is jule manden ( jule man ). I hope you and your family have a lovely Christmas kev, you have brought much entertainment in my home through the year 😊
With Kevin's deep voice, I would think Little Drummer Boy would be his song of choice! LOL Great video!
😜 I was actually humming it halfway through shooting the video
@@thehistorysquad ~ Cute!
Awesome! Christmas Eve 1970 when I was 7 we had to walk home in a snowstorm. Every since then I love getting socks for Christmas. ❤
I was 7 too, it was snowing when we left midnight mass. My most magical memory of Christmas.
My parents in the Midwestern US often speak of the great Blizzard of 1978. They said it was a complete white out. Could barely see your hand in front of your face.
When I was a kid one of the worst snow storms in my lifetime occurred when I was about 12 or 13. It was so bad, they canceled all holiday school productions and we got out of school a few days early for Winter break.
Have a wonderful holiday season, my fellow history friends!! ❤
@@craigds3745 😊
@@BeeKool__113 😊
Merry Christmas!! I love those words, "I made a model."!
Same! It's gets us ready for a fun time!
A very Happy Christmas and Yuletide to you and yours.
I wish a happy and prosperous New Years to you all as well.
Keep calm and keep ‘em coming!
Cheers from Oregon!
😜 will do
Back to a model. Now that’s the Kevie we all know and love. Merry Christmas to you and your family kevie. Anyone reading this merry Christmas to you too my brother or sister.
Happy Christmas Kevin to you and your family
Merry Christmas! That history presentation was wonderful. Thanks so much.
I remember getting nuts, fruit and hard Christmas candy (that I thought tasted like medicine). Later on, when it was my turn to do up the stockings, I filled them with things like toothbrushes, toothpaste, deorderant and maybe some bathsalts. I am glad that my daughter has carried on in the same manner.
I always enjoy and look forward to your posts.
Merry Christmas 🎄 🇨🇦
Another goodie from Mr Hicks, I don’t even need to finish the first 20 seconds to post this
You’re very kind, thanks
Merry Christmas to you all from America. God bless us, everyone.
Wishing you, your family, and staff a very blessed Christmas! Thank you for the superb videos; your hard work is appreciated more than you can imagine! ❤
Thank you very much!
Today on the Solcitice were taking Donny out to gather greenery like ivy, holy, and evergreen and we decorate the whole house with it. Were also having some friends over for dinner and as Terry Pratchett fans, we are calling it Hogswatch :D
My own reenactment group puts on a feast every year in January; Winter Revel and a friend of mine is in charge of it and she has recruited me for the team and guess what? the Yule Log is something i am in charge of becuase of the woods we have. Besides measuring it, the log also has to be green and recently cut. Not just so it burns slower but in the pagan context it has to have the sap of life still within it so you bring that new life and new spring into your home.
I hope you, Julie and Rupurt all have a very Merry Christmas. I know Donny, as the most recent baby in my family, is going to be getting so much candy and so much love he will be on a sugar crash till after New Years. 😂
😂 how lovely, so your friend is the Lady of Misrule. We do miss that greenery, back in England we also used to collect holly and Ivy to decorate. Best wishes to the whole family.
Ooh sounds fun and terry pratchett❤
Sounds wonderfully traditional!🎄
Hi Kev, I have fond memories of The Yule Log on TV. WGN out of Chicago would play Christmas favorites while the TV screen was a burning fireplace from 1am to 5am. Many times, I would come home late on Christmas Eve and fall asleep to The Yule Log burning. Love your stories all year round. Merry Christmas to You and Yours.🎄
Wishing you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas from Oregon! Just finished making a double batch of old fashioned fudge for our Christmas get together.
Merry Christmas
You are a man of many hats, and you wear them all well! Always a pleasure to listen to your stories. Happy Christmas to you and yours, and a happy holiday to all of you out there!
Wonderful video, Mr. Hicks. Merry Christmas to you, and yours 🎄🥳
Merry Christmas from Texas, Mr. Hicks. Thank you for another wonderful video. May you and your family have a wonderful holiday season!
Greetings once again from Nova Scotia, thanks Kevin, that was beautiful. You really took me back to when I was a kid. You also taught where/when some of my favorite things about Christmas came from. All the best for all of yours. God bless, merry Christmas.
Glad you enjoyed it 🎄
The nuts and fruit was a big thing in the American south to. My aunt that was born in 1921 said it was a tradition that went back to her grandparents in the family at least from the storys she had heard.
And the oranges and Satsuma was a really big deal. And my family been in Florida on that side since the early 1800s.
She talked about her dad getting brizil nuts and true walnuts. Compared to blackwalnuts, hickory nuts, pecan and butter nuts that grew on the farm.
I remember, as a boy, sitting with my father at the kitchen table on Christmas Day, cracking and eating walnuts from our stockings. Good times! Thank you for your great videos, Kevin. And a Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones! 😊
Happy Yule Mr Hicks, thankyou for your stories and history lessons, all the best to you an yours for the coming year!!!
Okay this was awesome. Thanks for the knowledge, MERRY CHRISTMAS Kevin & family + RUclips family!
Merry Christmas to you and your family, and Happy New Year.
I have six ornaments from my parents first Christmas in 1953. I treasure these. I wasn’t going to decorate this year, as I lost my husband of 44 years right before Christmas last year. But I did and it is beautiful, my little tree and presents for my son, daughter in love and my two precious grandchildren. My two dogs don’t seem to care either way. Thank you for all the work you put in to the videos. ❤️from Texas
Merry Christmas to you and your family Kevin! 🎄
I returned to London back in 1999, to teach in East Ham, already we were not aloud to do Christmas carols, a concert or decorate our classes. Most of the teachers were from Australia New Zealand and South Africa, I from Canada where my classes had been very multicultural. I was horrified and then in January another day became a holiday!!
Thank you Kevin for giving time and meaning to the roots of tradition and the history of Christmas.
Happy Christmas 🎉
God Jul Kevin! Greetings from Norway.
God jul mand!🎄 selvom jeg bor i Danmark
Merry Christmas! Looking forward to more of your videos next year!!
Thank you Kev and seasons greetings for you and yours
Merry Christmas Kevin May it be filled with love and joy! Your videos this past year have brought to me a great deal of joy thank you for all that you do sir!
Thank you for this contemplation of Christmas traditions. So entertaining, and satisfying for us history buffs.🙂
I think I'm especially fond of the story about Christmas stockings. Very heartwarming.❤
Of course, I can't leave out how special people gathering together is. How Christmas tradition distinctly includes that. As it should.❤️
Loved your mischievous laugh when explaining what the "coffin" part of the pastry is! That, when buried in one, WE are the coffin!😜
Just this morning I read a short article about how the British royals (who I love) celebrate their Christmas, and it sounds like their traditions pick up from the German side of their heritage.
I've been to one midnight mass. I'm a non-denominational Christian and we're tucked in at home on Christmas Eve. One year I went to a Lutheran Church for theirs. Boy, what an event! Awe inspiring and beautiful!
✨Wishing the Hicks family a beautiful Christmas 🎄 and a prosperous, healthy 2025!✨
Wonderful, thanks for all your support over this past year Cindy 🎄👍
God Jul Mr. Hicks, and to all those dear to you.
Your videos are amazing. You are such an interesting individual. Best of wishes my friend.
Thank you Kevin. Loved this vid.. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year to you and yours ❤
Happy Christmas to you & yours Kevin and thank you for keeping us educated & entertained in equal measure.
Been a rough Christmas at work since we are down 3 people. And can't go home for the holidays. But, I will admit this video put a smile on my face. Thank you, and Feliz Navidad.
What a lovely little christmas gift Kev mate...
Have a great one and love to your family.
Oh, and a very happy Christmas time to you too! Thank you so much for all that you do.
Wonderful as usual. Thanks Hicks family for your hard work all year bringing us top quality content. Have a great Christmas and new year, hugs from the Everitt crew from outback Queensland Australia. 😊
G’day, thanks and a very merry Christmas to you all.
amazing video as always kev. i’ve been meaning to incorporate historical festivities into my christmas celebrations
Using this video will be perfect!
Thank you, Kevin! You're a wonderful person. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Thank you so much for this lovely presentation. I live in America. Unfortunately, we are no longer allowed to have a Nativity in schools. Sometimes it seems any religious ritual except Christianity is allowed, including Satanism.
Your models are amazing and I love it when you tell stories. I can imagine sitting around a campfire listening to your stories. I'll bet you are a fantastic husband and father. Bless you and your family.
Thank you Connie
You are so full of crap Connie, American Christians are the ones hounding everyone you don't like because you pretend to care what the Bible says but only follow the rules you happen to like, and I bet if Kevin had read your full comment he would not have you on a campfire listening to his stories because he's an actual decent human being
Yes! I completely agree with you. I live in California. It bummed me out when Christmas became less and less in our schools. And you aren't kidding. Even satanism gets allowed.😤
@@cindys.9688 It's terrible, isn't it, that other people might possibly believe in something different to you, and religious freedom means that your religion isn't allowed to dominate all aspects of society. The fact that you used to be able to get away with unconstitutional acts in schools makes you feel persecuted today. You wouldn't feel like this now if your ancestors hadn't broken the law.
Marry Christmas to you and your family and a good New Year
Lovely video. I just love Christmas traditions.
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Merry Christmas, Kevin! Thank you, for the history, as always!
Perfect opening for the begining of a time filled with giving and family. Merry Christmas to you and your family.😃
I wish you and your family a Christmas full of joy, peace and lots of Christmas trees, Sir Kevin Hicks.
Merry Christmas Mr and Mrs Hicks I hope you have a wonderful holiday season.
Another wonderful and informative video, thanks Kevin for all your efforts to keep us informed and entertained! . I especially enjoyed the pork pie thread . . Have a great Christmas and a very happy new year!
Thanks!
Hello Sgt, thank you for your kind SUPER, it’s much appreciated. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Brother Kevin.
Merry Christmas Kevin, Thanks for all your videos and see you next year.
Merry Christmas everyone
Grew up in 1960s America. We got nuts in their shells ( walnut, pecans, hazel nuts, brazil , almonds), tangerines or oranges, apple and hard candy in our stockings. It was special to get citrus fruits.
Merry Christmas to you all, and thanks for the story of our past 💜💜🧙♂🧙♂
Merry Christmas Kevin 🎉 God bless u & ur family ❤
Kevin, another outstanding video, as only you could present it! History is indebted to you for your preservation of it! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Kevin. Wish you and all your beloved ones wonderful Christmas holidays 🎊 🎉
Happy Christmas, Kevin!
That was as informative as it was sweet (as in pleasant to learn). Season's greetings, Sir Kevin!
Health and hapiness to you and your family!
Happy Holidays Kev! Your videos truly are a gift. I love learning these things. It also gives me things to talk about at the dinner table with family on Christmas, so you've given me something more to gift to my family and friends.
Fantastic Video! I really did not know how much of our Christmas traditions go back to the Medieval Times.
I wish you and your family a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
Fantastic video again Kevin thank you 👍🏻 Merry Christmas
Many thanks for all your great videos👍 All the best Christmas wishes to you your family and friends 👍Merry Christmas and Happy New year 👍
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours 🎄
Couldn't have asked for a nicer Christmas vid. Great vibes from Kevin, as always. Merry Christmas, big man!
Medieval history, what a Christmas treat! Happy Holidays everyone.
You, sir, are delightful and I quite enjoyed this video. Thank you and a Happy Christmas from Canada.
Thank You , Kevin ! Enjoyed your video very much . Merry Christmas to you and your family . 🎅🎄🦌🕊️🐫🎁🎀🌨️🥶☃️⛄❄️🐪🦉🌲
Honestly, one of my very favorite channels. Merry Christmas!
Thank you 🎄👍
Loved this video 🎉. Merriest of Christmas's!!!
A merry Christmas to you and your family Kev and all those watching. I subbed to you after seeing your video on archery. Fabulous!
Welcome to The Squad!☺️
@@cindys.9688 thank you so much! I'm blessed to be here!
Wonderful. Thanks for the sub!
Kevin, the content on your channel is brilliant, educational and entertaining. Keep it up, thank you and Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Hicks! Thank you for all of the delightful stories!
My pleasure
Merry Christmas Kevin Hicks. Thank you for the great videos this year
Merry Christmas! Happy Yule! Frohe Weihnachten!
Merry Christmas to you, my friend! Thanks for the great history videos and I hope you're surrounded by family, food and warmth
Making poor Adolf a servant for the Yule log is lovely. Have a great new year, Kevin!
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Merry Christmas, Mr Hicks