Learning Points: The ghost of Christmas past is always nostalgia

Nostalgia for Christmas past differs between the generations but that doesn’t lessen the magic for children - no matter what era they grow up in, writes Richard Hogan

There are time machines. You might not believe me, but there are. Perhaps not stylish ones like Marty McFly’s Delorean machine, but we have them.

In an essay written by Hugh Leonard in the 80s, he utilises an allusion to Proust’s work In Search of Times Past to illuminate this idea.