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The history of four festive sweets – from familiar favourites to the downright dangerous

By Laura Eastlake, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Edge Hill University

’Tis the season when supermarket shelves fill with selection boxes and tubs of chocolates that shrink a little more with each passing year. But despite Christmas “shrinkflation”, our festive love of sweets has endured for hundreds of years and shows no sign of abating.

From cards and crackers to ghost stories by the fire, we often think of the Victorians…

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