Henry Cole, the founding director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK sent the first Christmas card in 1843.

The printed Christmas card dates to the Industrial Revolution. Even at its birth, the greeting card used modernity to evoke ...

The development, and ultimate triumph, of the Christmas card in Victorian Britain demonstrates how nostalgia was channeled into invention. The Christmas card did not revitalize the traditions of C ...

It’s a common seasonal refrain: “Christmas just isn’t like it used to be.” This is not a new complaint. History shows that Christmas traditions are just as subject to change as any other aspect of ...

A Christmas card Jeff Anderson sent to his mother 50 years ago is living on year after year. It was 1974. Anderson was 25 ...