Celebrating Christmas in well-to-do families
- The Royal Family at Christmas 1848
- Christmas at Home (1843 Illustrated London News)
- The Upper-middle-class Family's Christmas Dinner in America (Harper's, 1860)
- Butcher's Shop — Prize Meat at Christmas
- Bringing in Christmas
- The Christmas Tree (Harper's, 1860)
- Hanging Christmas stockings (Harper's, 1860)
- Eliza Cook's “An English Christmas Home!”
- Fetching Home the Christmas Dinner (John Leech)
- The Christmas Goose (Phiz)
- The Christmas Holly Cart
Christmas among the poor
- Two Scenes of Urban "Refuges" — A Sign of the Hungry Forties: "Are There No Prisons, Are There No Workhouses?"
- Refuge for the Destitute — Ward for Females
- Refuge for the Destitute — The Male Ward
- Poor Man's Christmas (Harper's, 1860)
Santa Claus and Father Christmas
Christmas outside the home
- Christmas Pantomime
- Christmas skating in the park (Harper's, 1860)
- The Waits; or, Making the Most of It (street musicians)
The Literature of Christmas
- Dickens "the man who invented Christmas"
- Fathering Christmas: Charles Dickens and the (Re)Birth of Christmas
- Chapter 28 of Pickwick Papers: “A Good-himoured Christmas Chapter” (coming soon)
Last modified 17 August 2015