“[The first card] was a single sheet of stiff ... The popular and commercial heyday of Victorian Christmas cards was the period from the 1860s to the 1890s. Increasingly, advances in colour ...

In 1843 Henry Cole commissioned an artist to design a card for Christmas ... hats in the late Victorian period, and remain in this form as an essential part of a modern Christmas.

A festive new development in the Victorian era, the first Christmas card was created in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole. According to Ritz Malliett, these early Christmas cards often featured flowers and ...

Victorian Christmas cards were the stuff of nightmares Christmas ... However, the idea actually first came to Britain from Germany with Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III, who hung ...