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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to one and all.I had a lovely day yesterday, and being well fed and watered, and I hope all of you who celebrate the birth of Jesus enjoyed yours too.
Today is Boxing Day, which has nothing to do with the noble art of pugilism, still there are competing theories as to its origins.
- Christmas Boxes for those who worked on December 25th from employers, these would be servants or tradespeople.
- Church Alms Boxes. Charity given on or before Christmas Day, distributed on the 26th.
As with many things, historical certainty is lacking, and yet the name Boxing Day is firmly entrenched in many Commonwealth countries as an additional holiday.
When making things up, especially in fiction grounded in a time and place, a writer can use uncertainty about events to give the reader a good reason to suspend their disbelief. I use the term "grey history" to refer to this process; historical gaps or lacunae in the record are vast, as only a tiny fraction of events, people, and daily life made it into surviving documents.
That gives plenty of room for exciting stories that could have happened. While a writer can take that to another level, oft called atlernative history, where the story asks the reader to imagine a world where a key event, or sequence of historical events, ended differently, it’s still possible for a fictional hero to save the world without the world knowing it happened.
Both my ongoing projects are a fusion of fantasy and historical fiction.
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