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The ancestry of holidays

The ancestry of holidays

Did you know that holidays were originally referred to as special religious days or ‘holy days’? With an average person spending 17 per cent of their disposable income on holidays, it is worth dedicat ...
1977 and all that

1977 and all that

We often look back when the New Year dawns and for me this year was no exception. It’s forty years since I went off to college and it got me thinking back to events that made up 1977. The most signifi ...