Who colour-coded Christmas?
Jolly Father Christmas with his rosy cheeks and scarlet coat, shiny green holly with its bright red berries, glittering red decorations on a lush green Christmas tree – the clichéd colour coding of the Christmas season seems as entrenched as the conventions in the West of wearing black to funerals and white to weddings. But where do the familiar Christmas colours come from and what do they really mean?
On Saturday October 22, Dr Spike Bucklow from the University of Cambridge’s Hamilton Kerr Institute will be examining artists’ materials to ask who came up with the colours of Christmas at the Festival of Ideas.
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Who colour-coded Christmas?’ will take place on Saturday October 22 at the Faculty of Law 11am – 12noon as part of Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas. Pre-booking is required. Suitable for age 14+.
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