“May Christmas be Merry” (19th ... as Tara Moore writes in Victorian Christmas in Print, even Alfred, Lord Tennyson was given 1,000 guineas to write a Christmas card poem.

But in Victorian times ... the more unusual cards of Christmas past. Because nothing says Merry Christmas quite like a mouse riding a lobster The first Christmas card was commercially produced ...

A prominent educator and patron of the arts, Henry Cole travelled in the elite, social circles of early Victorian ... Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year To You.” It was the first Christmas card.

But in Victorian times it was all par for the course. BBC News takes a look at some of the more unusual cards of Christmas past. The first Christmas card was commercially produced by Sir Henry ...