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Christmas cards were a relatively new thing in the 1800’s and they weren’t quite as they are today. There of course were some nice heartwarming Christmas cards but many were just plain weird! Humanised vegetables (for instance a beetroot with legs, arms and a head, wearing a top hat – see above), dead birds orContinue reading “From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (macabre Victorians)”