ANNA MARSHALL’s The Little Book of Christmas and Hogmanay: Scotland’s festive traditions(Birlinn, £9.99 (£9); 978-1-78027-960-2), revealing that the Christmas tree did not take off in Scotland until the 1950s and that “Morning has broken” has the …
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