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Dead robins and murderous mice! The dark origins of the Victorian Christmas card

The year 1843 was a good one for Christmas. Dickens’s legendary festive tale, A Christmas Carol, was published and the first commercially produced Christmas card was launched. Today, an estimated one billion cards are sent each year in the UK alone. By the time December 25 comes around, mantelpieces across the country are bedecked with images of chirruping robins, snow scenes, angels and, of course, Father Christmas himself. But such festive creations are a far cry from their Victorian forebears ....

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