That's because the popularity of Christmas as well as ... are actually holdovers from the Victorian era. Whether you're looking to bring an extra traditional touch to your holiday this year ...

According to Ritz Malliett, these early Christmas cards often featured flowers ... Ritz Malliett notes that for a truly traditional Victorian style, you should avoid colorful lights and snowflakes.

Take a trip back to the 19th century, when beautiful cards like these were how people sent their Christmas greetings. 24 December 2012 • 12:46am A traditional image of an angel visiting a ...

Christmas cards were also a product of the Victorian era ... known as St Stephen’s Day in Ireland – was associated with a traditional bird hunt, as ‘killing a wren or robin’ was thought ...

A Christmas robin and sprigs of holly decorate a traditional Victorian Christmas greetings card. (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The V&A museum has collected and displayed greetings cards ...

Christmas cards and crackers are also Victorian inventions which the royals ... impressed Victoria that he received a royal warrant. No traditional Christmas table in England is complete without ...

Some kinds of Christmas card images were as popular in Victorian times as they are today—in addition to that initial happy family, there was also a fair share of cards displaying classic ...

"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 ...

Most historians date the Christmas card’s arrival to 1843, the same year in which Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol. In that year, the inventor and civil servant Henry Cole ...