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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...