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From the NS archive: A merry Christmas

23 December 1922: How to negotiate the many contradictions of the festive season.

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5 December 1986: The simple enquiry about the company you’ll be keeping on 25 December oozes with sour layers of…

By Janet Hadley

6 December 1930: The revolt against presents is joined by the postmen, who develop a painful ailment which they call…

By Rose Macaulay

19 December 1931: The future Führer is manoeuvred to the edge of German politics.

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2 July 1965: Slum tenants demanded the transfer of unused railway land for affordable housing – to little avail.

By Paw Merriton and WJ Bolt

23 July 1949: If it is killing and giving pain that you object to, you had better give up trying…

By Clive Bell

2 December 1922: Why I would not sign the petition to save my friend from the firing squad.

By Desmond MacCarthy

8 April 1977: Hospitals, homes for the aged, schools, libraries: all were graciously conferred by charity in an epoch that…

By New Statesman