In fact, the royal Christmas tree, now a cherished symbol ... Also during the Victorian Era, the introduction of Christmas cards by Sir Henry Cole in 1843, followed by the popularity of crackers ...

In 1843 Henry Cole commissioned an artist to design a card for ... moved under the tree. The Christmas feast has its roots from before the Middle Ages, but it's during the Victorian period that ...

Victorian Christmas cards were the stuff of nightmares Christmas ... Gifts would be put in stockings, left under the tree or placed by the fire, but weren’t wrapped in paper until the 1870s ...

But most people don’t know that Christmas cards are a relatively new custom in the grand scheme of things, only dating back to the mid-Victorian era. Plus, despite their majority-female consumer ...