While Queen Victoria is often associated with Christmas trees, it was her grandmother, Queen Charlotte, who first introduced ...

The book was an overnight sensation, and Charles Dickens, already famous ... ARABLOUEI: The commercial side of Christmas was growing, too. The first Christmas card was sold in 1843, the year "A ...

date back to the reign of Queen Victoria and were described by author Charles Dickens. It is also the period when the first ...

London newspaper The Illustrated News published an image of the royal family gathered around an 8-foot decorated fir tree at ...

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Devoted fans of Chesterton (1874-1936), a well-known British writer and Catholic convert, marked the 150th anniversary of his ...

One of the many Christmas traditions that has been losing its charm over the years is Christmas cards. Here is the history of ...

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

Just 11 months earlier, at the start of 2020, the Minnesota Vikings ended the Saints season with an upset win inside the Superdome during the wild-card playoff round. On Christmas Day of 2020, the 6-8 ...

Since the latter part of the nineteenth century, family and children became the centerpieces of the Christmas celebrations.