In the 1920s and ’30s, a notorious set of siblings held England in thrall. But did one of them really announce her Nazism in the newspaper?

But what about the food eaten at the Victorian dinner table, beyond the (now) traditional turkey? These three recipes, which are both familiar and different to the Christmas menu we now know and ...

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

The use of these cheaper cards began to spread in the 1850s and had established itself as a holiday tradition by the final decades of the century. A Victorian invention? While the Christmas card may ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) While the holiday season is supposed to be a happy time, evidence suggests it's one of the worst times of year for domestic and family violence. Victorian crime data ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published in 1843 – the same year as the first Christmas card. Over the course of the 19th ... But what about the food eaten at the Victorian dinner table, ...

While the holiday season is supposed to be a happy time, evidence suggests it’s one of the worst times of year for domestic and family violence. Victorian ... over the Christmas to New Year ...

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 ...

Most popular modern Christmas traditions – tree decorations, festive feasts, holiday cards, carols – can be traced back to the Victorian era. There was also once a decidedly darker approach to ...