So competitive was the new trade that, as Tara Moore writes in Victorian Christmas in Print, even Alfred, Lord Tennyson was given 1,000 guineas to write a Christmas card poem. Moore adds that ...

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 ...

Other cards reveal a sense of humour darker, more absurd, and more violent than we associate ... It's no coincidence that the essential Victorian Christmas fiction, A Christmas Carol, is also ...

This series of creepy Victorian Christmas cards reveals that heart-warming images of a red-cheeked Santa Claus surrounded by plump turkeys, mulled wine and a brightly lit tree are a relatively ...

Victorian Christmas cards could be quite creepy, with their murderous frogs and mobs of torch wielding birds. But one repeating image is especially strange: the dead bird. What’s the deal with that?

But Christmas cards back in Victorian times were very different. There are no cards featuring Father Christmas, reindeer, snowmen, baubles or sleighs. Instead they depict lucky horseshoes ...

The first Christmas card was designed in 1843. It was a simple illustration with a seasonal greeting. The first cards were expensive, but by the late Victorian period Christmas cards became more ...