By the 1880s the sending of cards had become hugely popular ... While Charles Dickens did not invent the Victorian Christmas, his book A Christmas Carol is credited with helping to popularise ...

2. Victorian Christmas cards were the stuff of nightmares Christmas cards were invented by Henry Cole in 1843, and by the end of the century everyone was sending them. But the festive ...

The Royal Family said presents are opened on Christmas Eve because it followed ... by royal expert Robert Jobson to date back to the Victorian era, when it was instituted by Queen Victoria and ...