The commercialisation of Christmas ... cracker: a simple package filled with sweets that snapped when pulled apart. The sweets were replaced by small gifts and paper hats in the late Victorian ...

There are only a few days until December 25, when Brits will be doing a certain tradition that is almost two centuries old at the Christmas dinner table which Americans are utterly bewildered by.

The company still exists today, and supplies crackers for the royal family each Christmas. 2. Victorian Christmas cards were the stuff of nightmares Christmas cards were invented by Henry Cole in ...