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How Dickens and Scrooge Saved Christmas

BAH, HUMBUG!

The Industrial Revolution and Victorian practically erased the holiday in England. A Christmas Carol revived and reinvented it around the gift of giving.

Clive Irving
Clive Irving
Clive Irving

Clive Irving

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