Dickens and Christmas

'Dickens and Christmas' is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today - and of the writer who changed, forever, the ways in which it is celebrated.

Charles Dickens was born in an age of great social change.

He survived childhood poverty to become the most adored and influential man of his time.

Throughout his life, he campaigned tirelessly for better social conditions, including by his most famous work, 'A Christmas Carol'.