Eric Hobsbawm & the Invention of Christmas Traditions
(Eric Hobsbawm noted) that the inspiration for the idea behind the Invention of Tradition, (lege a book he jointly edited with Terence Ranger), came to him when, as a student at Kings College Cambridge, he realised that the famous Christmas Service of Nine Lessons and Carols had only been devised a few years before his arrival in the mid 1930s
From Eric Hobsbawm, A Life in History, Richard J Evans
Kings College Carols (male only choir) is broadcast each Christmas Eve and dates from 1918
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