While a modern-day Christmas is a blur of festive jumpers, prosecco cocktails and more leftovers than you can fit in a turkey curry – just a century ago, things used to looked quite different at Christmas.
From British soldiers reading their festive mail during the Boer War to two little boys in flat caps dragging home a fir tree plucked from Covent Garden Market, these photographs give a fascinating glimpse into Christmas in bygone decades.
