A Victorian Christmas
A Victorian Christmas Attitudes to Christmas changed during the 19 th centaury. The Germans had a massive influence on the modern British Christmas due to the British royal family descending from German roots and Queen Victoria being married to a German prince. The Germans introduced Christmas trees and the queen made putting presents under the tree popular and they also introduced Christmas card. As well as that Father Christmas/ Santa Claus/ Santa was introduced as a marketing advertisement. For most Victorians, Christmas was an enjoyable time to be spent with the family. However most employers would not allow holidays for the Christmas season. Therefore Scrooge not allowing Bob Pritchett and his fellow employees time off work to celebrate Christmas would not actually been an unusual circumstance. A British confectioner called Tom Smith visited Paris in the Christmas period and saw sugared almonds wrapped up in paper. From that experience sprung the idea o...