Butchart Gardens is beautiful year round. The Christmas Light Displays are especially wonderful. In this video, I tour Butchart Gardens during the Winter Christmas Light Display and enjoy afternoon ...

Let’s remember that Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a ghost story. Telling dark and scary tales for the holidays is a tradition that dates back to pagan times.

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, older British ...

A family of formally dressed robins take a stroll on a wintry Christmas morning on this circa-1870 Victorian Christmas card. Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

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These Christmas cards were thus novel, industrial products adorned with the imagery of British Christmases past. The development, and ultimate triumph, of the Christmas card in Victorian Britain ...

It is also the period when the first Christmas card was believed to have been sent – in 1843 – with that very card part of an exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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, older British ...

To celebrate this chapter in history, Jersey Heritage invited 500 schoolchildren to their Victorian House to learn all about how the Victorians would have celebrated Christmas.

And if you thought that turkey was the ultimate Christmas dinner, think again. Let's say the Victorians had a somewhat exquisite taste when it came to food, cards, and presents. Click through the ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published in 1843 – the same year as the first Christmas card. Over the course of the 19th century, his depictions of the Christmas turkey and charitable ...

The custom of mailing printed Christmas cards in the 19th century was a product of the industrial revolution. It was influenced by older British holiday traditions − some entirely fictional.