• The Larger Dumpy Books for Children: Holidays and Happy Days’

    Celebrating All Hallows’ Eve, the twentieth century way

    All Hallows’ Eve will soon be upon us and, as fate would have it, we recently stumbled upon the subject in a book from our archives. Published in 1901, the following extract from ‘The Larger Dumpy Books for Children: Holidays and Happy Days’ gives us a fascinating insight into a long-forgotten tradition, and how the…

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