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What Christmas looked like in the middle ages for one grieving family – from carols to charity and chess

By Diane Watt, Professor of English, University of Surrey

Margaret Paston’s reference to playing cards in her letter to her husband on Christmas Eve 1459 is the earliest recorded reference to the activity in England.

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