Tempting Treats & Festive Feats: Christmas Shopping Down the Ages

History Extra |11 December 2024 | 0h 38m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify

Interview with Annie Gray discusses our historical festive spending habits, from the horrors of visiting a Victorian butcher's shop to enormous seasonal turkey parades and outrageous stunts involving elephants. Draws from her book The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street.