The World Turned Upside Down

[1] Parliament believed the holiday should be a solemn occasion, and outlawed traditional English Christmas celebrations, which were seen as too closely associated with Catholicism.

[3] Its origin is in the Scripture: "But the other Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Acts 17:5–7 According to American legend, the British Army band under Lord Cornwallis played this tune when they surrendered after the Siege of Yorktown (1781).

"[5] Although American history textbooks continue to propagate the legend,[6] the story is almost certain to have been apocryphal as it first appears in the historical record a century after the surrender.

Command is given, we must obey, and quite forget old Christmas day: Kill a thousand men, or a Town regain, we will give thanks and praise amain.

To conclude, I'le tell you news that's right, Christmas was kil'd at Naseby fight: Charity was slain at that same time, Jack Tell troth too, a friend of mine, Likewise then did die, rost beef and shred pie, Pig, Goose and Capon no quarter found.

In 1972, the Marxist historian Christopher Hill published The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution ISBN 0-85117-025-0.

Traditional interpretations of the English Civil War concentrated heavily on a top-down analysis of the doings of king and parliament.