{"id":3241,"date":"2015-12-09T19:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2014-12-22T19:30:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:30:55","slug":"yr9-history-the-victorian-invention-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/historical-periods\/industrial-revolution\/yr9-history-the-victorian-invention-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Yr9 History: The Victorian Invention of Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"99%\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/xmas\/Firstchristmascard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/xmas\/Victorian_Xmas.docx\">Yr9 Lesson 1: The Victorian Invention of Christmas!<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/xmas\/Victorian_Xmas-teacher.docx\">Teacher Answers<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>In this activity, students consider how the Industrial Revolution almost destroyed Christmas altogether &#8211; until three real-life &#8220;Father Christmas&#8221; figures came along to save it! This is part one of a two-part lesson and makes use of images of the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/xmas\/firstCracker.jpg\">Christmas Cracker<\/a>, the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/xmas\/firstTree.jpg\">Christmas Tree<\/a>and the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/xmas\/Firstchristmascard.jpg\">Christmas Card<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yr9 Lesson 1: The Victorian Invention of Christmas!\u00a0|\u00a0Teacher Answers In this activity, students consider how the Industrial Revolution almost destroyed Christmas altogether &#8211; until three real-life &#8220;Father Christmas&#8221; figures came along to save it! This is part one of a two-part lesson and makes use of images of the first\u00a0Christmas Cracker, the first\u00a0Christmas Treeand the&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/historical-periods\/industrial-revolution\/yr9-history-the-victorian-invention-of-christmas\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Qh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3241\/revisions\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}