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 ...

In 1843 Henry Cole commissioned an artist to design a card for Christmas. The illustration showed a group of people around a dinner table and a Christmas message. At one shilling each, these were ...

An 88-year-old great-grandmother still receives a Christmas card every year from the German pen pal she has been writing to since she was 12. Sylvia Perkins, from Bermondsey, south-east London ...