However the sentiment caught on and many children - Queen Victoria's included – were encouraged to make their own Christmas cards ... and paper hats in the late Victorian period, and remain ...

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 ...

From cards to crackers, carols to fruit pies - how many of the Christmas traditions that we know today were made popular during the Victorian era? Find out with famous author, Charles Dickens!

Also during the Victorian Era, the introduction of Christmas cards by Sir Henry Cole in 1843, followed by the popularity of crackers invented by Tom Smith in the 1840s, and the revival of carol ...