Blogmas Preparations

My current WIP is focused on the first half of my Blogmas posts. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, it’s where you write 24 Christmas themed posts from December 1 to December 24. I did 48 new posts across 2022 and 2023 and linked back to the best of them last year as I was in Australia for half of the period. This year, the blog posts will be based around magazines from 1896 through to 2025. I will be looking at Christmas Magazines as both reflectors and shapers of the British Christmas over the last 130 years.

Currently, I am working through all the magazines and noting everything that appears in the magazine with any details and the page numbers. I am about halfway through the process and when it has finished I will look at all of my notes and start highlighting common themes and changes in those themes across the years.

Some of the magazines are big enough to require 5 pages of notes, and others just 2, but this is a vital part of the process. Until I can identify commonalities and contrasts throughout those years I can’t start to structure the posts properly and I can’t analyse them effectively. It’s a fascinating project and I think it will make a fascinating set of posts.

I hope you will find the series interesting from a number of perspectives, personal and social.