After a brief hiatus, we’re coming back at you with some Victorian Christmas traditions! Think your holiday traditions are weird? The Victorians would like a word. In this episode, we unwrap the strange and spooky side of Victorian Christmas, because nothing says “Merry Christmas” like ghost stories by the fire, oysters for dinner, and Christmas cards featuring… dead birds? So grab some figgy pudding (whatever that is), and join us under the mistletoe as we deck the halls with a little Victorian weirdness!

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SOURCES:

English Heritage - Victorian Christmas Traditions

Victoria & Albert Museum - Victorian Christmas traditions

Cinema Live - 5 Fascinating Victorian Christmas Traditions

Mental Floss - 11 Odd Victorian Christmas Traditions

Kat Devitt - 7 Weird Victorian Christmas Traditions

History.com - Some of the Earliest Christmas Cards Were Morbid and Creepy

Alexander Meddings - Victorian Christmas Traditions: the Good, the Bad & the Batsh*t Mad

Friends of Dalnavert - Have Yourself a Creepy Little Christmas

Ranker - 25 Bizarre and Disturbing Victorian Christmas Cards

The Guardian - Shock of the old: 11 murderous and macabre Victorian Christmas cards

The Conversation - Charles Dickens and the birth of the classic English Christmas dinner

Cultura Colectiva - 17 Creepy Vintage Christmas Cards For The Ones Who Enjoy a Dark Holiday

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