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Christmas in the Victorian Workhouse
By Fabia Buescher (fb586@cam.ac.uk) In my previous two posts on Victorian Christmas traditions, I discussed Christmas puddings and Christmas trees, two integral customs of middle- and upper-class Christmas conviviality. Yet, while lavish Christmas dinners and beautiful Christmas decorations filled the middle- and upper-class homes, Christmas in the nineteenth-century workhouse looked very differently. In 1834, the…
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