“[The first card] was a single sheet of stiff ... The popular and commercial heyday of Victorian Christmas cards was the period from the 1860s to the 1890s. Increasingly, advances in colour ...

In 1843 Henry Cole commissioned an artist to design a card for Christmas ... hats in the late Victorian period, and remain in this form as an essential part of a modern Christmas.

The traditional songs of worship were part of the Victorian Christmas which featured in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Victorian Christmas cards were the stuff of nightmares Christmas ... However, the idea actually first came to Britain from Germany with Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III, who hung ...