A number of Victorian sources remark on this schoolboy tradition. Young scholars returning home after a long semester of study would fire peas out of their carriage at innocent passersby. The ...

Christmas as we celebrate it today has its origins in Victorian Britain. It's hard to imagine now, but at the beginning of the 19th century Christmas was hardly celebrated. Many businesses did not ...

“May Christmas be Merry” (19th-century Christmas card) (via Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington) Anthropomorphic cats, murderous frogs, and insects dancing by the moonlight aren’t exactly ...

You may not know it, but when it comes to Christmastime, you probably have more in common with the Victorians than you think. That's because the popularity of Christmas as well as many of the ...

So much of how we celebrate Christmas comes from the Victorian era, but it might be for the best that some of these traditions were left in the past. But while many of the traditions popularized ...

Thomas Crane, Interior of card, Marcus Ward (1880) (all cards from the collection of Peter Wadham, courtesy Patricia Zakreski) 1880 card by Helen Cordelia Angell, probably published by Marcus Ward ...

A Victorian Christmas is coming to Hull. The celebration, featuring a Victorian pantomime and a traditional fairground carousel, will be held at the Museums Quarter on 29 and 30 November. It is part ...

An ageless story reminds us of the values the Victorians can still teach us. A particular Christmas, or to be more exact, two Christmases, entered the modern imagination in 1868 through a much-beloved ...

The BBC published an article about Victorian Christmas cards yesterday, tracing their history from the strange to the downright disturbing. In some, children languish in boiling teapots. Dead birds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THOMASVILLE — Southwest Georgians are encouraged to get ready to step into a magical winter wonderland as Thomasville hosts its ...

Join David Bouchier for the annual Victorian Christmas program -- an afternoon of seasonal music and stories about the traditions, myths and entertainments of Christmas a century and more ago. It airs ...