Twelfth Night not the end of Christmas
Is tonight Twelfth Night or is it tomorrow Wednesday? Tonight Tuesday used to be Twelfth Night for everybody but by the time of the Restoration in the mid-17th century it had become the custom to keep Twelfth Night on 6 January. Samuel Pepys wrote on 6 January 1665: ‘At night home, being Twelfthnight, and there […]