
The Victorian Christmas
You're Dead to Me
I've Got a Pigeon and Partridge Phobia.
The nineteenth century has delivered n enormous men of poverty. From the 18 forties onwards, there is this idea that if you are a good christian person, you are supposed to care for the people around you who have less. In 18 51, the leicester square soup kitchen feeds on christmas day, 22 thousand people that who are either homeless or families who are really struggling. They go through five thousand pounds of plum pudding on this one day. And we see these across the country - in any of the kind of big towns, manchester, newcastle, anywhere, on christ Christmas Day. We can sort of look at that and go, how lovely it doesn't take away the
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