A lesson on Christmas cards - the best season’s greeting of all...
Today, a bewilderingly large selection of festive cards is available – religious, nostalgic, contemporary, cute, humorous… looks back to when card giving began.
Henry Cole’s problem was that he had too many friends. How on earth could a man busy inventing perforated postage stamps and children’s colouring boxes find time to write them all a letter at Christmas — as any Victorian gentleman was expected to?
