Join Collin as he breaks down Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with the help of a LibriVox audiobook. Each month, a new episode of A Christmas Carol Deep Dive will drop, until we have gotten through the whole book. Find out about the historical context, cultural references, inspiration for adaptations, and much more. This episode covers the first half of the book's first stave, from the beginning of the story up through Bob Cratchit leaving the counting house.

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LibriVox Audiobook

Ghost Stories in Victorian England

Dead as a Doornail

Dead as a Doornail #2

John Elwes

Who Was the Real Ebenezer Scrooge

Humbug

Debtor's Prison

Workhouses (Many books linked on this page)

Workhouse Documentary

Thomas Robert Malthus essay

The Treadmill

Dunstan