Helen Johnson, Yorkshire Writer
Helen Johnson Freelance Writer
I’ve spent years writing about Yorkshire’s Christmas traditions. But this Christmas will be one like no other – because we have Covid-19 – and it’s easy to feel that Christmas Continue Reading →
Helen Johnson reflects on Yorkshire Christmas traditions. Continue Reading →
Christmas is a time for fun and celebrations of every kind, and at the Ryedale Folk Museum, they’re celebrating dance. Victorian Christmas The Museum specialises in bringing a Victorian Christmas Continue Reading →
It’s Christmas, a time of light and sparkle. And for this, glass is the ultimate material. Glittering, translucent, and richly coloured, glass has graced Christmas celebrations for centuries. And now, Continue Reading →
Each Christmas in West Tanfield, North Yorkshire, people come together to put on their own Christmas play. They prefer classic stories. They’ve done the Nativity, St Nicholas, and Babushka. Continue Reading →
Pantomime season It’s Christmas, so it’s pantomime season. And in Appleton Wiske, as in many other villages, it’s a home-grown, home-produced Christmas pantomime. But in an age of TV, with Continue Reading →
Christmas preparations There is much joy to be had in the anticipation of Christmas – a joy captured by children as they make their Christmas preparations. For Dalesman Magazine this Continue Reading →
Christmas in Yorkshire can be dark, dull and cold. But at Ravensworth Nurseries in Yorkshire, Christmas heralds a munificence of glowing scarlet poinsettias filling acres of cosy, heated glass houses. Continue Reading →
At Christmas in Thirsk, local groups come together to put on displays and events to celebrate the season. And at Christmas, Thirsk’s shopkeepers, most of whom are small, independently-owned businesses, Continue Reading →
I joined a workshop making Christmas Wreaths with Angela Cole. She made them using woven willow, probably one of the most ancient ways of making a Christmas decoration – and Continue Reading →