Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to raise awareness of some of the problems in Victorian society. He thought that ...

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is among his most popular work. When it was initially published in December 1843, Dickens had been certain the book would sell well. However, his goals wasn ...

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly.