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The Holly and the Ivy

An early book mentions the carol as well as a manuscript containing a more ancient song which is, or was, in the British Museum.


Henry Ramsden Bramley

Along with earlier 19th-century composers such as William Sandys and John Mason Neale, Bramley and Stainer are credited with fuelling a Victorian revival of Christmas carols with their 1871 publication of Christmas Carols, New and Old, which popularised carols such as "The First Nowell", "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" and "The Holly and the Ivy".


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