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Christmas card from a Victorian periodical

Christmas and the Victorian Medical Press

The release of The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) – a film which tells the story of how Charles Dickens penned A Christmas Carol in 1843 – has reignited the popular myth that the Victorians ‘created’ the festive season.
19 Dec 2017
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Goblins and Indigestion: the Tale of the Christmas Microbe

2 Jan 2017
Punch, Returning from the christmas party

Season's Greetings

The “Diseases of Modern Life” team wishes all its readers and colleagues a very happy Christmas and a healthy and successful New Year.
23 Dec 2014
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The Disorder of Spoiled Children

I’m sure the old platitude that ‘Christmas comes earlier every year’ is true.
18 Nov 2014
Cartoon of man with reaper reading A Christmas Carol

The Proof is in the Pudding: A Bah! Humbug! Victorian Christmas

‘He is an utter and bombastic fraud. He rolls spluttering and crackling onto the English dinner-table at Yuletide, a sprig of English holly cocked jauntily in his cap, well nigh bursting his rotund body in swaggering sham patriotism.’
23 Dec 2017

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