Some kinds of Christmas card images were as popular in Victorian times as they are today—in addition to that initial happy family, there was also a fair share of cards displaying classic ...

So competitive was the new trade that, as Tara Moore writes in Victorian Christmas in Print, even Alfred, Lord Tennyson was given 1,000 guineas to write a Christmas card poem. Moore adds that ...

According to National Geographic, men and women in the ultra-proper Victorian era had little choice but to rely on these cards to score a date. In the absence of online matchmaking sites or modern ...

C. U. Home” card. Photograph courtesy Alan Mays Escort cards mimicked Victorian calling cards, which members of the upper classes left at each other’s houses to introduce themselves ...

Photographic calling cards of the leading lights of Victorian horticulture, described as the “original social media”, have gone on display online. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS ...