Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas? Bah, humbug, no he didn’t

In St James’s, members of the Carlton Club, then a key component of the Tory Party’s organisational machinery, had a few years earlier thought nothing of arranging a committee meeting on December 25 itself. But in a rather grand house near Regent’s ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/charle...

Published: Wed 19th Dec 2018 01:00 AM