“[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 ...

Our founding director, Henry Cole, sent the first Christmas card in 1843. We now hold the national collection of cards for all occasions, with over 30,000 examples, more than half of which celebrate ...

A Victorian invention? While the Christmas card may have seemed like an entirely new invention to Victorian senders and receivers, the first Christmas card’s design was actually influenced by other, ...

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.

Christmas cards and crackers are also Victorian inventions which the royals evangelized. In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, printed 100 festive cards fe ...

A festive new development in the Victorian era, the first Christmas card was created in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole. According to Ritz Malliett, these early Christmas cards often featured flowers and ...

One of the most significant seasonal traditions to emerge from the Victorian era is the Christmas card. It was Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the V&A, who introduced the idea of the Christmas ...

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 ...

Victorian Christmas Card with dogs and parrot Three dogs and a parrot toasting ... for Christmas 1883 to “The Graphic”, a British weekly illustrated paper first published by Illustrated Newspaper Ltd ...

"We're also having a go at writing with dip pens as well which Victorian people would have been using at school." Schoolchildren had the chance to write Christmas cards using traditional feather ...