The colourful, illustrated Father Christmas ABC, which dates back to 1894, was found on a shelf in the rare book section in the library at Cambridge University.

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 ...

Murderous frogs, children boiled in teapots and a mouse riding a lobster are generally not images seen today on Christmas cards but in Victorian times it was all par for the course.

Murderous frogs, children boiled in teapots and a mouse riding a lobster are generally not images seen today on Christmas cards but in Victorian times it was all par for the course.