Archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Gunn and historian Ruth Goodman return to the Shropshire farm where the BBC's Victorian Farm series was filmed, this time to prepare for a mid-19th-century Christmas. Over three episodes they work through the season as a farming household actually would have: slaughtering and salting meat, baking traditional puddings and pies, cutting greenery for decorations, and making gifts and games by hand rather than buying them. The team traces how customs now taken for granted, the Christmas tree, cards, crackers, and even the shape of a modern family gathering, took hold in Victorian Britain and spread from there. Goodman handles the domestic and culinary work while Langlands and Gunn take on the farm labor and building projects the season demanded, and the show stays close to primary sources for recipes and social detail rather than guessing. It plays as hands-on experimental history rather than a lecture, with the farm's mud, cold, and physical work left in rather than smoothed over.