Christmases Past: Inside Shugborough's Victorian kitchen....
Dec 08, 2015, 12:00 PM
(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, December 2015)
From bringing a tree inside your home to hanging mistletoe -- our modern Christmas traditions are habits we've adapted over centuries.
At BBC Radio Stoke we've been looking into Christmases through the centuries -- including when pudding was made with potatoes and you couldn't unwrap your presents until the new year.
Today we step back to the late 1800s, as EMMA THOMAS, gets a lesson in Victorian festivities at the Shugborough Estate...