A photograph of a Christmas pudding from a Mrs Beeton Recipe Book

We are lucky to have some wonderful Christmas themed items in our collections; from recipes and menus to Victorian Christmas cards (some with weird and wonderful designs) to 1940s decorations; we even have a sleigh! We have been sharing some of our festive favourites on our social media pages throughout December.

If you feel like reading more about Christmas traditions during the festive season head over to our learning room blog here: Christmas past article.

We wish all our service users, audiences and followers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Our public programmes will re-start in February and we look forward to an exciting year ahead in 2024!

A Christmas tree image made up of some of our archive and museum collections