It was in Victorian times that the idea of Christmas as a family holiday, with gift giving, a tree, and an intimate dinner became central to this celebration. Britons traditionally celebrate ...

Last September, Kmart aired a Christmas ad 105 days before Christmas. AdAge said it was the “earliest ever kickoff to holiday marketing,” and an analyst the publication reached out to called ...

Sainsbury’s is celebrating the culmination of its 150th year with a bold brand campaign that takes viewers back to Victorian England to consider how Christmas traditions such as Santa Claus and ...

Christmas, though supposed to be the creation of Christ and the Apostles, is actually rather later in origin. Victorian, in fact. Much that we associate with the nativity stems from Charles Dickens’s ...

The commercialisation of Christmas was well on its way. Traditional Victorian crackers Another commercial Christmas industry was borne by Victorians in 1848 when a British confectioner, Tom Smith ...

For over 30 years, a blast from Thomasville’s Victorian past takes over the City of Roses. Victorian Christmas was started in December 1986 by a group of downtown retailers. "It began real small ...

Christmas cards and crackers are also Victorian inventions which the royals evangelized. In 1843, Sir Henry Cole, the first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, printed 100 festive cards ...

But if you received a Christmas card in the late 19th century, there’s a good chance you’d find yourself looking at an image of a dead bird. According to Hallmark, about 1.3 billion Christmas ...

Underneath the Christmas tree in the Emmerson Room at the Clarke Museum are toys of the Victorian time, including a toy cat, rabbit, dog and cart, all circa 1890-1900. (Heather Shelton/The Times ...